Revolutionary People

John Adams

"Father of Independence" Lawyer (defended the redcoats) Treaty of Paris delegate. Served on committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence

Paul Revere

American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming. Created the "Bloody Massacre" picture.

Thomas Paine

Author of Common Sense (a pamphlet trying to talk colonists into splitting from Great Britain) and American Crisis.

Thomas Jefferson

Author of Declaration of Independence in 1776. Member of Continental Congress.

General Cornwallis

British general who surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown.

George Washington

Commander of Continental Army Excellent military leader

Samuel Adams

Cousin to John Adams. Leader of the Sons of Liberty.

Mercy Otis Warren

Female patriot writer during revolution wrote many plays, poems, and essays under a pseudonym (fake name)

Wentworth Cheswell

First African American elected to public office Rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming

John Paul Jones

First American Naval hero. Said "I have not yet begun to fight"

Marquis de Lafayette

French Aristocrat. Came to help the colonists win the war.

King George III

King of England during the American Revolution

Benjamin Franklin

Oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention Author of Join or Die. Creator of Albany Plan. Treaty of Paris delegate.

Abigail Adams

Patriot Wife of John Adams Wrote letters that requested her husband to "Remember the ladies".

John Hancock

Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress; first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Patrick Henry

Said "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"

James Armistead

Virginian slave spied on the British

Crispus Attucks

the first person killed in the Boston massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely considered to be the first American casualty in the American Revolutionary War.