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.