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Important People in the American Revolution Questions and Answers Already Passed King George III ✔✔ruled Great Britain before, during, and after the American Revolution; declared the colonists... in rebellion Patrick Henry ✔✔strongly protested the Stamp Act; representative from Virginia; said "Give me liberty or give me death!" in an important speech George Washington ✔✔leader of the American army during the Revolutionary War; represented Virginia in the First and Second Continental Congress; 1st U.S. President Benjamin Franklin ✔✔colonial journalist and scientist; helped write the Declaration of Independence; helped negotiate the end of the Revolutionary War Thomas Paine ✔✔wrote "Common Sense" --helped convince the colonists that independence made common sense Thomas Jefferson ✔✔principal writer of the Declaration of Independence; made a deal with France called the Louisiana Purchase--doubled the size of the United States John Adams ✔✔a member of the Sons of Liberty; helped write the Declaration of Independence; helped with the treaty that ended the war Marquis de Lafayette ✔✔a Frenchman who helped the colonists win their independence from England: served with George Washington Martha Washington ✔✔wife of George Washington; visited Washington and his soldiers at Valley Forge Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley (Molly Pitcher) ✔✔served with her husband in the Revolutionary War; cooked, cleaned, cared for the wounded, and carried water to soldiers Abigail Adams ✔✔wife of John Adams; ran the family farm during the war; urged her husband to "remember the ladies" when Congress was creating the new republic Peter Salem ✔✔former slave and a Minutemen hero; given freedom in exchange for serving in the American Army during Bunker Hill and Saratoga Crispus Attucks ✔✔a freed slave; killed during the Boston Massacre African Americans ✔✔fought on both sides of the American Revolution Paul Revere ✔✔made a famous ride in the night to warn people in Massachussetts that the British were coming Patriots ✔✔American colonists who were against the British. Tories or Loyalists ✔✔American colonists who wanted America to remain as a British colony and remain loyal to the English king. John Paul Jones ✔✔A great American naval officer said "I have not yet begun to fight!'' as his American ship was sinking. An American sailor threw a grenade and destroyed the enemy ship and the British surrendered . Nathan Hale ✔✔An Dutch schoolteacher who spied on the British for Gen. Washington. He was captured and hung without a trial. Ethan Allen ✔✔An American giant who led a troop of soldiers over a wall at Fort Ticonderoga. He was able to overtake the fort without firing a shot. Deborah Sampson ✔✔the female soldier [Show More]

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