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RoadtoRevPeople

Road to Rev People

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Royal Governor of Massachusetts whose house was burned by the mob during the Stamp Act riots; his orders to let a ship unload its cargo of tea precipitated the Boston Tea Party Thomas Hutchinson
Called a "Royal Brute" in the pamphlet, Common Sense George III
Started the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act. Later organized a Boston committee of correspondence to spread information on the colonists' complaints against Britain. Samuel Adams
Prime Minister of England during the Revolution Lord North
President of the Second Continental Congress, One of the wealthiest colonists, he gave money to fund the sons of Liberty. Hancock
One of the most admired men in the colonies, had been a spokesman for the colonists in London to urge Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act. Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin
Warned Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming to arrest them and take the minutemen's store of weapons. His engraving of the "Boston Massacre" enraged colonists against the British Paul Revere
Wrote a powerful and popular pamphlet criticizing the king and urging colonists to establish a republic and declare independence from Britain Thomas Paine
Introduced a resolution in June, 1776 that said that the colonies should be independent. Adopted by Congress, it was the first step towards independence Richard Henry Lee
Wrote a document to put before mankind the causes which led the colonists to break with England. Thomas Jefferson
Appointed commander of the Continental Army. George Washington
Member of the Virginia Assembly who in 1774, called for independence, declaring, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry
Wrote that all men have a right to life, liberty, and property and that governments exist to protect those rights; this is the "social contract" that exists between a government and the people John Locke
Philadelphia merchant who bankrupted himself financing the Revolution Robert Morris
Victorious at Camden, he surrendered at Yorktown Lord Cornwallis
Proposed taxes on items such as paint, glass, tea, and lead in order to raise money to defray the salaries of imperial officials in America Charles Townshend
Wrote the Olive Branch petition John Dickinson
Boston lawyer who persuaded the Massachusetts House of Representatives to call for the Stamp Act Congress; had questioned the constitutionality of writs of assistance and had also claimed that Parliament could not tax the colonials without their consent. James Otis
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