REVOLUTION RESEARCH

WILLIAM ALLEN

• birth place: Philadelphia
• birth date: August 5, 1704
• date of death: September 6, 1780
• place where death occured: Mount Airy in Germantown Avenue
• cause of death: old age and health issues

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• social-economic background: wealthy
• education: admitted to Middle Temple in London to study law
• Occupation: Chief Justice of the colony's Supreme Court. Official grand master of Philadelphia.
• Contribution to the revolutionary movement: He went to England to publish "The American Crisis".

JOHN ASKIN

• birth place: Aughnaclay, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• birth date: 1739
• date of death: 1815
• place where death occured: Sandwich, Canada
• cause of death: old age and health problems

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• social-economic background: lowerclass and shopkeeper
• education: he did not have a formal education
• occupation: fur trader, merchant, office holder, and militia officer
• contribution to the revolutionary movement: He invented the jacket, called Mackinaw Jacket, which the British Army wore.

LORD NORTH

• birth place: Piccadilly, London UK
• birth date: April 13, 1732
• date of death: August 5, 1792
• place where death occured: Grosvenor square, London UK
• cause of death: poor health, went blind

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• social-economic background: high rank
• education: leipzig university, elton college, trinity college, oxford
• occupation: elected to parliment 1756, served on the treasuer board, 1759- joint paymaster general.
• 1765- was a memeber of the privycouncil, 1766- served as chancellor of the exchequer, from 1770 to 1782 was the prime minister of Great britian
• contribution to the revolutionary movement: tried to illminate the townshend tea duties but miscalculated and it was only reduced to half which eventually brought on the bodton tea party ultimately leading to the war of independence

BENEDICT ARNOLD

• birth place: Norwich, Connecticut
• birth date: January 14, 1741
• date of death: June 14, 1801
• place where death occured: London
• cause of death: unknown

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• social-economic background: Arnold's father did not manage the family's money well. By the time Arnold was a teenager they we're very poor. He was forced to leave school to go find work.
• education: did not have much of an education because he dropped out.
• occupation: Revolutionary War General, spy.
• contribution to revolutionary movement: originally fought for American independence from the British Empire as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. When obtained command of the American fort at West Point he switched sides.
• He was considered to be the best general and most accomplished leader in the Continental Army. Without Arnold's earlier contributions to the American cause, the American Revolution might well have been lost. After he switched sides he became know as a traitor and is remembered throughout history as one.

WORK CITED

• www.theamericanrevolution.org
• http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/askin_john_5E.html
• http://let.rug.nl/
• http://ushistory.org/
• http://www.notablebiographies.com/