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Individuals of the Revolutionary Period
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abigail Adams | John Adam's wife |
| John Adams | represented mass. in the continental congress. Played a key role. 2nd president |
| Samual Adams | second cousin to John Adams. led the sons of libretyq |
| Ethan Allen | captured Fort Ticonderoga |
| Crispus Aticus | died in the Boston Massacure |
| Daniel Boone | american frontiers men. Explored Ketucky |
| General Edward Braddock | British commander in chief who died in disastrous expedition against the French-occupied Ohio Country in 1755, in which he lost his life. |
| John Buroyne | British general during the American Revolution. Surrendered at Saratoga |
| George Rogers Clark | was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War |
| John Singleton Copley | He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives. |
| Lord Cronwalls | Active in the advance forces of many campaigns, in 1776 he notably made possible the Battle of Princeton, an embarrassing British defeat, and surrendered his army at Yorktown |
| Benjamin Franklin | American intellectual during the Revolution, particpated in the continental congress |
| Nathan Hale | was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British |
| Alexander Hamilton | t the start of the war, he organized an artillery company and was chosen as its captain. He later became the senior[2] aide-de-camp and confidant to General George Washington |
| John Hancock | was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress. Had the largest signature on the Declaration of Indpendence |
| Sir William Howe | was a British army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American War of Independence |
| Thomas Hutchinson | enforced British tases. His home was ransacked and burned down as protest from Partriots |
| John Jay | first chief justice of the united states |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the declaration of indepence |
| John Paul Jones | was a Scottish sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. |
| Richard Henry Lee | best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain |
| James Madison | the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United States Bill of Rights |
| George Mason | was an American Patriot, statesman and a delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Along with James Madison, he is called the "Father of the Bill of Rights. |
| Robert Morris | |
| James Otis | |
| Thomas Paine | author of common sense |
| William Pitt | |
| Lord North | |
| Edmund Randolph | |
| Paul Revere | |
| Daniel Shays | |
| Roger Sherman | |
| John Trumbull | |
| George Washington | |
| Martha Washington | |
| Anthony Wayne | |
| James Wilson |
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