Match the face and description of important people of the American Revolution.
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| 310401810 | Thomas Jefferson | Virginian, architect, author, governor, and president. Lived at Monticello. Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Second governor of Virgina. Third president of the United States. Designed the buildings of the University of Virginia. |  |
| 310401811 | George Washington | 1st President of the United States |  |
| 310401812 | John Hancock | Patriot leader and president of the Second Continental Congress; first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. |  |
| 310401813 | John Adams | America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained." |  |
| 572964166 | Patrick Henry | Famous quote - "Give me Liberty or give me death!" A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, he spoke out against British rule and taxes, |  |
| 572964167 | Paul Revere | American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming. He was a silversmith whose sketch of the Boston Massacre was propaganda for the patriots. |  |
| 572964168 | Thomas Paine | Patriot and writer whose pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776, convinced many Americans that it was time to declare independence from Britain. |  |
| 572964169 | Samuel Adams | Samuel Adams played a key role in the defense of colonial rights. He had been a leader of the Sons of Liberty and suggested the formation of the Committees of Correspondence. Adams was crucial in spreading the principle of colonial rights throughout New England and is credited with provoking the Boston Tea Party.. |  |
| 572964170 | John Dickinson | wrote the series of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" in 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts. Although an outspoken critic of British policies towards the colonies, Dickinson opposed the Revolution, and, as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, refused to sign the Declaration of Independence. |  |
