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• Who was the
Commander of
the Continental
Army?
George
Washington
•Who was the primary
author of the Declaration
of Independence and our
foreign minister to France
during the American
Revolution?
Thomas
Jefferson
• Who was the King of Great
Britain during the American
Revolution who disbanded the
colonial legislatures, taxed the
colonies, and refused the Olive
Branch Petition leading to the
final break with the colonies?
King George III
• Who was a founder of the
Sons of Liberty who started the
Committees of Correspondence
to stir public support for
American independence, and
organized the Boston Tea Party
(an act of civil disobedience)?
Samuel Adams
• Who was a member of Sons
of Liberty, Boston
silversmith, created Boston
Massacre engraving, rode to
Lexington and Concord
warning of the arrival of the
British?
Paul Revere
• Who said “Give me
liberty or give me
death” in a speech to
convince people to join
the Revolutionary war.
Patrick Henry
• Who was an inventor, statesman,
diplomat, and signer of the
Declaration of Independence. He
negotiated the alliance with
France and then the Treaty of Paris
which ended the war. He also
participated in the U.S.
Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Benjamin
Franklin
•Who was the lawyer who
argued that the British
soldiers at the Boston
Massacre acted in selfdefense and were
innocent.
John Adams
• Who was a French noble
who came to America to
support the Revolution. He
became good friends with
General Washington and
was with him at Valley
Forge?
Marquis de
Lafayette
• Who wrote pamphlets
like Common Sense to
encourage American
independence?
Thomas Paine
• Who was an African-American
patriot during the American
Revolution, made a midnight
run to New Hampshire to warn
of a British invasion, and fought
with Continental Army at
Saratoga?
Wentworth
Cheswell
• Who was an American
patriot, wife of John
Adams, and early
supporter of women’s
rights?
Abigail Adams
• Who was an American
patriot woman, famous for
writing anti-British
Revolutionary poetry and
books? Wrote first history
book on the American
Revolution from her notes.
Mercy Otis
Warren
• Who was a former slave,
served in the Continental
Army under Marquis de
Lafayette, was also a spy
for the Americans?
James
Armistead
•Who was a Spanish naval
commander who helped
the Continental Army
defeat a British fleet at
New Orleans, and secure
the Gulf of Mexico?
Bernardo de
Galvez
•Who was a privateer
credited with starting
the U.S. Navy. Fought
British at sea and won.
John Paul
Jones
• Who was an AfricanAmerican patriot shot and
killed at the Boston
st
Massacre? (1 American
to be killed by the British)
Crispus Attucks
• Who was a polish-born
Jewish immigrant, banker
and financier, and supplied
the U.S. government with
loans to finance the
Revolutionary War?
Haym Solomon
• Where were the first
shots and battle of the
American Revolution?
Lexington and
Concord
• What was the turning
point during the American
Revolution that convinced
the French to help the
Patriots?
Battle of
Saratoga
• What was the final
battle of the American
Revolution where the
British army
surrendered?
Battle of
Yorktown
• What was the treaty that
ended the American
Revolution and forced
Britain to recognize the
United States as an
independent nation?
Treaty of Paris
of 1783
• What were the
colonists who supported
Great Britain during the
American Revolution
called?
Loyalists
• What were the colonists
who favored
independence from Great
Britain during the
American Revolution
called?
Patriots
• Who was a Puritan
leader, founder of
Connecticut, and main
writer of the Fundamental
Orders of Connecticut? He
believed all men should
be able to vote.
Thomas
Hooker
• Who founded Pennsylvania for
the Quakers, where he wrote a
constitution that limited the
power of government,
provided a humane penal code,
and guaranteed many
fundamental liberties?
William Penn
• Who was a French
philosopher whose ideas
of separation of powers
and checks and balances
inspired Jefferson and
Madison.
Charles de
Montesquieu
• Who believed in a
doctrine of natural rights
which outlined the
fundamental rights all
humans should enjoy: life,
liberty, and property?
John Locke
• Who defined the rights of
individuals in English law,
as well as property rights
that could not be violated,
even by the king?
(Unalienable rights)
William
Blackstone
• Which document was signed
in 1215 by King John of
England, and was the first
document that limited power
of the ruler and established the
principles of trial by jury and
one could not be deprived of
life, liberty and property?
The Magna
Carta
• What was the document written
in 1620 by the founders of the
Plymouth colony, the Pilgrims?
This document represented an
early form of colonial selfgovernment and an early form of a
written constitution, establishing
the powers and duties of the
government.
The Mayflower
Compact
• What document was drafted
by the settlers in the
Connecticut River colony in
1639, and was the first written
constitution in the colonies
establishing a democratic
government controlled by
citizens?
Fundamental
Orders of
Connecticut
• What was established in 1619,
as the first representative
assembly (group) in the
American colonies? Famous
delegates included Patrick
Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and
George Washington.
Virginia House
of Burgesses