People of the American Revolution

Patrick Henry

"Give me liberty or give me death"

Wentworth Cheswell

African American patriot leader, warned his community of a British invasion, fought at Saratoga

Benjamin Franklin

Author of the Albany Plan or union and artist of the " Join or Die" cartoon. Member of the 2nd continental congress and signer of the declaration of Independence. Convinced France to support the colonist and negotiated the Treaty of Paris 1783

Cornwallis

Commander of the British Army

William Blackstone

English legal scholar who created a complete overview of English law

Crispus Attucks

First to be killed at the Boston Massacre

Thomas Hooker

Founder of Connecticut

William Penn

Founder of Pennsylvania

Samuel Adams

Founder of the Sons of Liberty and opposed British taxation

John Paul Jones

Founder of the U.S. Navy, led raids on the British

Marquis de Lafayette

French aristocrat that helped in the American Revolution

Baron Charles de Montesquieu

French philosopher whose ideas included separating the government into three branches.

King George III

King of England during the American Revolution, aggressive policy against colonial resistance

John Locke

Natural rights philosopher in England whose list of individual rights included life, liberty and property

Abigail Adams

Supported Independence, "remember the women". Wrote letters to her husband that included early ideas about women's rights.

George Washington

Virginian, surveyor and planter, commander of the continental army

Thomas Paine

author of common sense, a pamphlet calling for independence

Thomas Jefferson

delegate at the constitutional convention, author of the Declaration of Independence

James Armistead

enslaved African American, spied for Lafayette, fought at Yorktown

John Adams

lawyer who defended soldiers after the Boston Massacre, helped negotiate support from France, negotiated the Treaty of Paris 1783, member of 2nd Continental Congress

Mercy Otis Warren

wrote plays about independence