A | B |
Spaniard who shipped the Patriots guns and ammunition | Bernardo de Galvez |
Patriot known for saying “Give me liberty, or give me death!” | Patrick Henry |
Scientist, patriot and only person to have signed all of America's four founding documents. Was also a key delegate to France during the American Revolution | Benjamin Franklin |
Author of Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
Founder of the Sons of Liberty | Sam Adams |
First African American elected to public office | Wentworth Cheswell |
Wrote numerous letters to her husband, stating her opinions on independence and women’s rights | Abigail Adams |
Patriot and member of the Continental Congress, wrote numerous letters to his wife, stating his opinions on independence and the Patriot cause | John Adams |
African American who acted as a spy for the Patriots | James Armistead |
Author of Common Sense and The Crisis | Thomas Paine |
Jewish immigrant who loaned $$ for the Patriot cause | Haym Solomon |
African American killed during the Boston Massacre; the first to die for freedom in the colonies | Crispus Attucks |
Patriotic woman who wrote pamphlets and plays making fun of the British; wrote the first history of the American Revolution | Mercy Otis Warren |
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army | George Washington |
Frenchman who helped train troops at Valley Forge and loaned his own $$ to the Patriot cause | Marquette de Lafayette |