| A | B |
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| King George III | The ruler of England. He ignored colonists protests. |
| Parliament | The English lawmaking body. |
| Patrick Henry | He was a n outspoken lawyer who delcared the Stamp Act illegal. |
| Sons of Liberty | A secret protest group of colonists. |
| Daughters of Liberty | Colonists who protested by boycotting British Tea and cloth. |
| Samuel Adams | The leader of the Sons of Liberty. |
| Crispus Attucks | He was considered the first African American hero of the Revolution. |
| John Adams | He was the lawyer for the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre. |
| Committees of Correspondence | A group of colonists who shared information throughout the colonies. |
| Paul Revere | He was a Boston Silversmith who created negative propaganda for the Boston Massacre. |
| Militia | These citizens were ready to fight in any emrgency. |
| Minutemen | This is what the farmers and artisans in the Militia were called. |
| John Hancock | He was the president of the Second Continental Congress and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. |
| Thomas Jefferson | He drafted the Declaration of Independence. |
| George Washington | He was the commander of the Continental Army. |
| Continental Army | These soldiers fought against the British led by George Washington. |
| Hessians | They were a group of German soldiers who were hired by the British to help them fight. |
| Green Mountain Boys | They were a group of rebels who attacked Fort Ticonderoga. |
| Benedict Arnold | He was a trusted American general caught spying for the British. |
| Thomas Paine | He wrote the Pamphlet "Common Sense". |
| Casimir Pulaski | He trained the first American calvary (troops on horseback). |
| Francis Marion | He was known as the "Swamp Fox". |
| Loyalists | Colonists who wanted to stay under British control. |
| Patriots | Colonists who wanted to break ties with Brtain. |
| John Paul Jones | He attacked the British warship Serapis. |
| General John Burgoyne | He was the British general who surrendered at the Battle of Saratoga. |
| George Rogers Clark | He led volunteers on a raid against the British in the Ohio Valley. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He was the ambassador who convinced France to become an ally to the colonists in the fight against the British. |
| William Prescott | He was a Colonel who led American soldiers in the Battle of Bunker Hill. |
| Nathan Hale | He spied for George Washington, was captured by the British, and was condemned to death. He said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
| General Charles Cornwallis | He was the British general who surrendered at Yorktown. |
| General Thomas Gage | He was the British general who raided the gun supplies at Concord. He was sent to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. |
| Molly Pitcher | She brought water to the American soldiers on the battle front. |
