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Who?: John Adam’s wife

Why?: Early advocate for women’s rights. Her letters were a main source of life during the Revolution

Who?: African American teacher from New Hampshire

Why?:

� First Elected African American.

� Fought in the Battle of Saratoga

Who?:�Boston lawyer

Why?:� Led debate on

Independence� Second president of

the USA

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Who?:

� A political writer and

propagandist of the

American Revolution

Why?:

� Used her writings to

stir colonists against

British policies

� She is considered

“First Lady of the

American Revolution.”

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Who?:

� African slave from Virginia

Why?:

� An African American who became the first double spy in the American Revolution

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Who?:

Spanish governor of Louisiana and Cuba

Why?:

� Led Spanish armies against the British in the American Revolution

� Kept the British from taking the Mississippi River.

Who?:

� African American sailor

from Massachusetts

Why?:

� One of the victims of

the Boston Massacre in

March 1770

Who?:� King of England from

1760-1820

Why?:� Began sending troops to

the American colonies in 1765

� Approved many laws that taxed and tried to control the colonies

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Who?:

� Jewish financier (banker) from Rhodes Island

Why?:

� Gave money to support the Continental Army during the American Revolution

Who?:� Member of the Virginia

House of Burgesses who supported the break from England

Why?:� declared in 1765, “I know

not what course others may take. But as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

Who?:� Politician and Farmer

from Virginia

Who?:� part of the committee to

draft a declaration of independence in the summer of 1776.

� Did the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence

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Who?:

� Foreign volunteer from France who helped train soldiers in the Continental Army.

Why?

� He gathered a group of French officers to help in the Americans’ struggle against the British.

Who?:

Corset maker and political activist

Why?:

� His pamphlet Common Sense, published in early 1776, argued that the time had come for America to break with England

Who?:A man of many talents: authors, inventor, political activist

Why?:� Delegate to the

Continental Congress from Pennsylvania who was part of the committee assigned to draft a declaration of independence in 1776

And a few more….

� Boston Sons of Liberty

leader who founded

the committees of

correspondence; was

hiding in Lexington

when the British

marched in that

direction in April, 1775

� Head of the Massachusetts committee of safety, was hiding in Lexington in April 1775, president of the 2nd Continental Congress and the 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence

� Boston silversmith who is remember for riding to warn the countryside that the British were coming in April 1775

� Delegate from Virginia who was chosen by the Continental Congress in May 1775 to lead the new American army