The people of the american revolution
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| 1060103704 | Benjamin Franklin | American patriot, writer, printer, and inventor. During the Revolutionary War he persuaded the French to help the colonists. | |
| 1060103705 | Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President of the United States , He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. | |
| 1060103706 | Thomas Paine | Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he published The Rights of Man | |
| 1060103707 | Abigail Adams | Wife of John Adams. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront. She urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government he was helping to create. | |
| 1060103708 | John Adams | (1797-1801) The 11th Amendment is added to the Constitution in 1798. Washington D.C. becomes America's official capitol in 1800., He was the second president of the United States and a Federalist. He was responsible for passing the Alien and Sedition Acts. Prevented all out war with France after the XYZ Affair. His passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts severely hurt the popularity of the Federalist party and himself | |
| 1060103709 | George Washington | (1732-1799) no political party. Virginian who began as a commander and chief in the Revolutionary war. Had no desire to become president but the people wanted a strong national leader. Set prescient for many things, including the two terms rule. Warned US against being involved in foreign politics. | |
| 1060103710 | Mercy Otis Warren | (1728 - 1814) was an American writer and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution". Mercy Otis was America's first female playwright, having written unbylined anti-British and anti-Loyalist propaganda plays from 1772 to 1775, and was the first woman to create a Jeffersonian (anti-Federalist) interpretation of the Revolution, | |
| 1060103711 | King George 3 | Was the King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures, taxed the colonies, and refused the Olive Branch Petition leading to the final break with the colonies | |
| 1060103712 | John Locke | 1632-1704. Argued that government exists to protect "life, liberty, and property" More optimistic about human nature. Believed humans enjoyed certain inalienable rights that no government can take away. Humans entered into social contract to establish government and protect rights | |
| 1060103713 | Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army. | |
| 1060103714 | Crispus Attucks | The African-Native American man who was the first man to die in the Boston Massacre, also considered the first death in the Revolutionary War | |
| 1060103715 | Bernardo de Galvez | a Spanish governor who came over to help America and helped raise an army | |
| 1060103716 | Haym Salomon | Jewish American who helped negotiate for financial assistance from France and Holland to help pay for the Revolutionary War. He raised money needed by Washington to pay for the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia. | |
| 1060103717 | Wentworth Chestwell | an African American veteran to the Revolutionary War who, like Paul Revere, rode all night to warn the British Invasion .He rode a different direction from Revere. | |
| 1060103718 | James Armistead | African American slave who gathered military information about the British for the Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette freed him later after the war was over for his efforts. | |
| 1060103719 | Paul Revere | American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by Longfellow) to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming (1735-1818) | |
| 1060103720 | John Hancock | "King of the Smugglers." A wealthy Boston merchant who defied the mercantilist system and the Navigation Acts. He was one of the leaders of the Sons of Liberty. He was a leader in the plot to store gunpowder in Lexington and Concord. He was the President of the Continental Congress at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was the first to sign the Declaration. He signed it really big and made the comment, "So Fat George in London can read it without his spectacles!" | |
| 1060103721 | Patrick Henry | (1736-1799) A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies. Famous for "Give me Liberty or Give me Death". | |
| 1060103722 | John Paul Jones | (1747-1792) American naval officer famed for bravery, his most famous victory was the defeat of the British warship Serapis, during which he declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" | |
| 1060103723 | Samuel Adams | American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803) |
