A | B |
Layfaette | French noble who fought beside the Americans in the Rev. |
Thomas Paine | Wrote "Common Sense" which attacked King George and called for the colonies to be independent. |
Molly Pitcher | Brought troops water during the Rev. War. |
Phyllis Wheatley | African-Amer. poet who wrote about the Rev. War. |
Paul Revere | Warned the colonist that the British were coming. |
Thomas Jefferson | Main writer of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd president. |
Ben Franklin | Inventor, printer, one of the writers of the Dec. of Indep. |
Crispus Attucks | Patriot, former slave, killed in the Boston Massacre |
John Adams | 2nd president, one of the writers of the Declaration of Independence |
King George III | King of England during the Rev. War |
Lord North | Prime Minister of Britain/ laws about tea led to the Boston Tea Party |
Benedict Arnold | Continental army officer who became a traitor |
Samuel Adams | Set up the Committe of Correspondence and helped form the Sons of Liberty |
Nancy Hart | GA woman who killed 3 Redcoats |
George Washington | 1st president, leader of the Continental army |
Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown. |
Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
Patriots | colonial soldiers during the Rev. War |
Redcoats | British soldiers during the Rev. War |
England/English | Great Britian/British |