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| Made the Midnight Ride warning the minutemen that the British were coming/Artist of the Boston Massacre | Paul Revere |
| Convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to support the War with his famous speech, “Give me liberty or give me death”/He Spoke out against the Stamp Act/Served in the Continental Army | Patrick Henry |
| He feared that the loss of one group of colonies would lead to the loss of others and the eventual decline of the empire/To prevent this, the Crown maintained an aggressive policy against colonial resistance/ He struggled to enforce royal authority throughout his reign/King of England during the Revolutionary Era | King George III |
| Much of our Knowledge about the debates in the Continental Congress came from letters between this person and her husband/Her Writing reveals a commitment to voting rights for women and African American, and strong support for American Independence/She told her husband to take care of the women, who would not hold themselves bound by laws in which they had no voice (“Remember the ladies”) | Abigail Adams |
| Lawyer and politicial/defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre/a member of the Continental Congress (representing Massachusetts)/strong supporter of independence/Was on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence | John Adams |
| African American Patriot/like Paul Revere he made an all night ride back from Boston to warn his community of the impending British invasion/served in the army and fought at the Battle of Saratoga/He was a judge, and a church leader/He is considered the first African American elected to public office in America | Wentworth Cheswell |
| Created the Committee of Correspondence/Leader of the Sons of Liberty/Protested the Tea Act and the Boston Massacre | Samuel Adams |
| Wife of a Massachusetts Patriot/anonymously wrote several propaganda pieces supporting the Patriot cause | Mercy Otis Warren |
| Slave in Virginia/Marquis de Lafayette recruited him as a spy for the Continental Army/Posing as a double agent, forager and servant at British headquarters, he moved freely between the lines with vital information on British troop movements for Lafayette/contributed to the American victory at Yorktown | James Armistead |
| A member of the committee which wrote the Declaration of Independence, but spent most of the period of the American Revolution in France/He represented the colonies as the American envoy starting in 1776 and remained until 1785/He negotiated the alliance with France and then the Treaty of Paris which ended the war | Benjamin Franklin |
| Helped the Americans by shipping them supplies/He commanded Spanish troops against the British in both New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Florida | Bernardo de Galvez |
| A black man/became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| A Polishborn Jewish immigrant to America who played an important role in financing the Revolution/arrested by the British as a spy/used by the British as an interpreter with their German troops/helped British prisoners escape and encouraged German soldiers to desert the British army/became a broker to the French consul and paymaster to French troops in America/A Jewish banker who help finance the war/He gave loans to the new American Government | Haym Salomon |
| Early and effective leader in the American Revolution/He was a delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and in 1776 he was a member of the committee which wrote the Declaration of Independence/chief writer of Declaration of Independence, which was approved by the delegates | Thomas Jefferson |
| A French aristocrat who played a leading role in two revolutions in France and in the American Revolution/He respected the concepts of liberty and freedom and constitutional government/Between 1776 and 1779 he fought in the American Revolution, commanding forces as a major-general in the colonial army/important because France joined the Colonists against the British/Helped train the soldiers of the Continental Army | Marquis de Lafayette |
| A resident of Virginia, he was a surveyor, a planter, a soldier in the French and Indian War, a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution | George Washington |
| A Leading General of the British Army/Defeated at the Battle of Yorktown | Charles Cornwallis |
| Founder of the U.S. Navy/Led Raids on British Vessels during the American Revolution | John Paul Jones |
| British General defeated at the Battle of Saratoga by Horatio Gates/Like many British Generals he thought that the rebels were ignorant farmers who could easily be swept away by highly trained British regulars | John Burgoyne |
| Wrote the Pamphlet Common Sense to persuade people to join the Patriot cause | Thomas Paine |