FCB Faith is your rhythm and prey station. I listen, my mom listens, pretty much the whole family. I cannot, I cannot. I canna said, don't, don't, don't, and no, don't. Listen to FCB Faith on iHeartRadio, Odyssey at ffaith dot com, or tell your smart speaker to play ETCB Faith on iHeartRadio. This is the FCB podcast. Network agreed to us solve the jeeranny. We start the thing, and they thought so when we were in America. Welcome back to the Growing Patriot Podcast. I'm your host, Amelia Hamilton. This is episode one hundred and one. In the first one hundred episodes, we talked about the whole colonial history of America, from leaving Britain and other countries, landing at Jamestown, through colonial life, trouble with King George the Third, and all the way to becoming a country of its own with George Washington as president, and now going to talk about the founding fathers. But in this quick episode, I want to talk a little bit about what it means to be a founder, and that means talking about what a foundation is. So have you ever built something maybe out of lego and it just falls apart when it gets too tall. It's not really because the top was too tall, it's because the bottom wasn't strong enough. And that bottom part is the foundation. So in a building, whether. It's made out of lego or it's a big skyscraper, the foundation is that base upon which you build. It's a strong bottom part that holds the whole thing up. So when our country was being built, it was the same thing. And the founders of our country were building something incredible, so they had to create a really strong foundation that would last. They built our foundation on ideas like liberty, compromise, fairness, justice, the importance of the individual, and improvement over perfection. Then they laid it all out, and our founding documents from the Mayflower Compact in sixteen twenty to the Articles of Confederation in seventeen seventy seven, the Constitution in seventeen eighty seven, and the Bill of Rights in seventeen eighty nine. But every building needs architects to design it and builders to build it, and those were our founding fathers. It's hard to pick just the top few because so many important people were involved, but most historians agree that there were seven main founders and that's who we're going to focus on. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about them right now, and then we're going to dive deep into each of them and the episodes to come. So right now, I'm just going to go in the order in which they were born. So first up was Benjamin Franklin, who was born in seventeen o six. He was an inventor and a thinker who ended up creating a whole new nation. Then the next two were George Washington and John Adams, and they were born more than twenty five years later. George Washington was born in seventeen thirty two. He wasn't expected to be that important to history, but then was chosen to lead. John Adams was born in seventeen thirty five, a Harvard educated lawyer who helped to lead the revolutionary cause, and so did other members of his family. About ten years after that, we had Thomas Jefferson born in seventeen forty three and John Jay born in seventeen forty five. One is really famous and one not many people still talk about. Thomas Jefferson was the son of a prominent Virginia family who were early British immigrants to the colonies, and John Jay. He did just about as much as Jefferson for the American cause, and also came from a prominent merchant family. His was in New York and for those of you who don't know him, I can't wait to introduce you. James Madison was born next in seventeen fifty one. He was pretty sick as a child, and some might have thought that he wouldn't have been able to fight for a new nation, but he spent so much time reading and studying and that would pay off later. Then, the youngest of the bunch, Alexander Hamilton, was born in seventeen fifty seven, fifty one years after the first Benjamin Franklin. And remember, at that time, a lot of people didn't even live to be fifty one years old, so for them to live at the same time and work to the same amazing cause is really something. And Alexander Hamilton might have had the most adventurous background of them all. He was born to a single mom on an island in the West Indies. So in the episodes to come, you'll hear about how this group of men came together in the middle of the eighteenth century when some were very young men and some were very old to create something that most of the world thought was impossible. You'll find out who among them became president, who served on the Supreme Court, and what other important jobs they had that changed our history forever. This is going to be so much fun and I can't wait for you to join me. They create us out for Jeanny stand the thing, and they thought so we would be America Landa. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast network, where Real Talk lives. Visit us online at fcbpodcasts dot com.
