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Amer. Rev. people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sons of Liberty | groups of colonists organized protests throughout the colonies |
| Samuel Adams | led the Sons of Liberty; rebel; attacked tax collectors and broke into their houses |
| Daughters of Liberty | wove their own cloth instead of buying it from Britain |
| Paul Revere | Patriot; rode through the night by horseback to warn colonial fighters that British soldiers were coming to Lexington and Concord |
| Benjamin Franklin | new delegate at the Second Continental Congress; assisted in the writing of The Declaration of Independence |
| John Hancock | new delegate at the Second Continental Congress; president of Congress; first to sign the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Jefferson | new delegate at the Second Continental Congress; asked by Congress to write The Declaration of Independence |
| George Washington | appointed to lead the Continental Army; General |
| King George III | king of Britain; ruler of the colonies |
| Patrick Henry | Patriot from Virginia gave a speech to a group of Virginia delegates saying "Give me liberty or give me death!" |
| Thomas Paine | wrote a pamphlet called "Common Sense"; pushed for independence |
| John Adams | delegate who argued strongly for independence; assisted in the writing of The Declaration of Independence |
| Richard Henry Lee | Virginia delegate who asked Congress to officially declare independence |
| Congress | representatives from the colonies to make decisions |
| Patriot | a colonist who wanted freedom from British rule |
| Loyalists/Tories | a colonist who continued to support the king of England (Britain) |
| Redcoat | British soldier |
| Minutemen | colonial fighters |
| Parliament | made the laws in Britain |
| John Locke | English thinker; had idea that governments should serve their people; Jefferson used his ideas for the Declaration |
| Continental Army | army of colonists; smaller than the British army |
| Charles Cornwallis | a British General; won more battles in the south |
| Francis Marion | a commander of the Continental Army in the south called Swamp Fox because he could sneak up and attack the enemy |
| Nathaneal Greene | commander of the Continental Army in the south; had Cornwallis chase his army until the British were worn out and had used all their supplies |
| Crispus Attucks | first of the five colonists killed in the Boston Massacre |
| William Dawes | Patriot; rode through the night by horseback to warn colonial fighters that British soldiers were coming to Lexington and Concord |
| General John Burgoyne | British General; tried to cut off trade and communication between the colonies in the north and the others; he failed |
| King Louis XVI | French king; sent French troops and money to help the colonists |
| Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who wanted to help the Patriots |
| Baron von Steuben | German captain who gave the Patriots better training to fight better |
| Benedict Arnold | Patriot General who switched sides and gave secrets to the British |
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