| A | B |
| John Reynolds | 1st Royal Gov; self-gov't |
| Henry Ellis | 2nd Royal Gov; economic progress |
| James Wright | 3rd Royal Gov.; during Revolutionary War period |
| Noble Jones | "liberty Boy" ; speaker for General Assembly |
| Crispus Attucks | mulatto; killed in Boston Massacre |
| George Washington | Commander of Continental Army |
| Lyman Hall | Signed D. of I. ; gov in 1783 |
| George Walton | Youngest signer of D. of I.; gov of GA twice |
| Button Gwinnett | Signed D. of I. ; killed in duel |
| John Treutlen | GA' s first state governor |
| Elijah Clarke | Led militia group from GA ; Kettle Creek |
| Austin Dabney | mulatto who was a hero at Kettle Creek |
| Lord Cornwallis | British commander who surrendered at Yorktown |
| Samuel Adams | Leader in patriot cause; from Boston |
| John Adams | Patriot; Attorney for British in Boston Massacre |
| Thomas Jefferson | Wrote Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Paine | wrote Common Sense |
| Paul Revere | Patriot; rode to warn Lexington and Concord |
| John Hancock | Patriot with big signature |
| Tories | Loyalists |
| Whigs | Patriots |
| Midway | location ( present day Liberty County)where Puritans established plantations |
| Sunbury | Georgia's official port of entry |
| Lexington | Where the Minutemen gathered to fight British |
| Concord | British marched there after Lexington |
| Yorktown | Patriot victory; Cornwallis surrendered |
| Bunker Hill | British took hill but at a high price |