Chapter 8 Checkup D

John Paul Jones

"I have not yet begun to fight"

Nathan Hale

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Paul Revere

Boston patriot and silversmith famous for his midnight ride to warn the colonists

George Washington

Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

Benjamin Banneker

First black American to write a scientific book

John Hancock

President of the Continental Congress; first to sign the declaration of Independence

Patrick Henry

Virginian who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Betsy Ross

believed to have made the first official flag of the U.S.

James Armistead

black slave who served in the colonial army as a spy

Edward Braddock

commander of all British forces in North America during the French and Indian War

Thomas Jefferson

did the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence

James Madison

did the most important work at the Constitutional Convention; fourth President of the U.S.

John Adams

first vice president and second president of the United States

George III

king of England during the American War for Independence

Nathanael Greene

leader of American Armies in the South who defeated Cornwallis

Lord Cornwallis

leader of the British armies in the South

Green Mountain Boys & Ethan Allen

patriots who captured Ft. Ticonderoga from the British

George Rogers Clark

with his men captured several British forts on the Ohio, securing American control of the Northwest frontier