IMPORTANT PEOPLE

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• Tried to unite the colonies with his Albany Plan of Union.
• was an ambassador to France tried to convince them to help us
• negotiate the Treaty of Paris at the end of the American Revolution

KING GEORGE III

• This person taxed the colonists, denied them representation in the Parliament;
• he was a tyrant

THOMAS JEFFERSON

• Main author of the Declaration of Independence

JOHN ADAMS

• Part of the Continental Congress, was on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence.
• During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles
• And helped negotiate the treaty of peace

ABIGAIL ADAMS

• One of the first women’s rights activists,
• tried to use her husband to fight for women’s
• Rights when the Constitution was written in 1787

SAM ADAMS

• One of the men who started the Sons of Liberty,
• wanted representation in the English Parliament, instigator, agitator

CRISPUS ATTUCKS

• First man killed in the cause of independence – African American

PATRICK HENRY

• Great orator (speaker) The Voice of the Revolution addressed the Virginia House of Burgesses
• “Give me liberty or give me death!”

THOMAS PAINE

• Wrote Common Sense – propaganda. Wrote in a common way, for the common man, tried to get loyalists to begin and support the fight for independence. Wrote “The Crisis” – tried to help the American troops by motivating them to stay on and help fight for the cause.