Amsco AP US History Chapter 5 People Flashcards
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| 5083183089 | Patrick Henry | Radical from Virginia; delegate at Continental Congress. "Give me liberty or give me death!" | 0 | |
| 5083183090 | Samuel Adams | Radical from Massachusetts; delegate at Continental Congress; started Committees of Correspondence | 1 | |
| 5083183091 | John Adams | Radical from Massachusetts; delegate at Continental Congress; acted as lawyer for British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre | 2 | |
| 5083183092 | George Washington | Moderate from Virginia; delegate at Continental Congress; position of respect in colonial army | 3 | |
| 5083183093 | John Dickinson | Moderate from Pennsylvania; delegate at Continental Congress; writer of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" | 4 | |
| 5083183094 | General Thomas Gage | British general in the Revolution. He was commander in chief of the North American forces and military governor of the Province of MA Bay. | 5 | |
| 5083183095 | Benedict Arnold | He was an American General during the Revolutionary War (1776). He prevented the British from reaching Ticonderoga. Later, in 1778, he tried to help the British take West Point and the Hudson River but he was found out and declared a traitor (sold military secrets to Britain) | 6 | |
| 5083183096 | Green Mountain Boys | Vermont colonial militia led by Ethan Allen that made a surprise attack on Fort Ticonderoga. Surprised Britain. | 7 | |
| 5083183097 | John Jay | 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, negotiated with British for Washington | 8 | |
| 5083183101 | Paul Revere and William Dawes | Members of the Sons of Liberty. William Dawes rode to Lexington to tell Samuel Adams and John Hancock the British were coming. Paul Revere galloped across the moonlit countryside,shouting "the regulars are out" or the "redcoats are coming." | 9 | |
| 5083183102 | Minutemen | Another word for the colonial militia | 10 | |
| 5083183111 | Thomas Jefferson | Writer of the Declaration of Independence | 11 | |
| 5083183112 | Patriots | American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won | 12 | |
| 5083183113 | Loyalists (Tories) | Those who maintained their allegiance to the king. The majority tended to be wealthier and more conservative than the Patriots. | 13 | |
| 5083183124 | 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. | 14 |