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| Thomas Jefferson | principal author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Samuel Adams | head of the Sons of Liberty |
| John Adams | defended the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre |
| Patrick Henry | member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who spoke for liberty |
| Paul Revere | developed an engraving of the Boston Massacre |
| William Dawes | with Paul Revere warned the colonists of the British march to Concord |
| Patriot | supporter of the American separation from England |
| Loyalist | supporter of England |
| Ethan Allen | leader of the Green Mountain Boys who successfully took Fort Ticonderoga |
| Colonel William Prescott | at the Battle of Bunker Hill said, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" |
| Thomas Paine | author of "Common Sense" and "American Crisis" |
| Second Continental Congress | named George Washington head of the Continental Army |
| Continental Army | successful at the Battle of Trenton and Yorktown |
| Benedict Arnold | helped defeat the British at Saratoga but was going to give West Point to the British |
| mercenary | often a Hessian who was paid to fight |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French nobleman who fought with the Americans |
| Baron von Steuben | Prussian who trained the American troops at Valley Forge |
| John Paul Jones | American naval hero |
| Lord Cornwallis | British general who surrendered at Yorktown ending the fighting |
| Francis Marion | also known as "Swamp Fox" used guerilla warfare tactics |
| Crispus Attucks | African-American sailor and first man killed in the Boston Massacre |
| George III | British king during the Revolution |
| George Washington | American general who had most of his army surrender after the British captured New York |
| James Otis | Massachusetts leader who spoke against British taxation without representation |
| John Locke | English philosopher who developed ideas about man's natural rights of life, liberty, and property |
| John Hancock | president of the 2nd Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence first |
| Nathanael Greene | general of American forces in the south |
| Jean Rochambeau | French general who led French ground forces at Yorktown |
| Comte de Grasse | French naval officer who blocked a British naval retreat at Yorktown |
