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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