Influential People of the American Revolution

Known as the Swamp Fox

He was the leader of the Sons of Liberty and led protests like the Boston Tea Party.

Known as a French Diplomat who kept the relationship between the colonists and the French civil

He was the Virginian that gave the Liberty or Death speech at the first Continental Congress

Who persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act?

Paid to fight wars

He was a free African American killed during the protest known as the Boston Massacre.

He was a well-known political thinker and is credited with helping write the Declaration.

Who was NOT on the Committee of Five

Who had the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?

Known for war tactics like guerrilla war fare, added bayonets to shotguns.

He was a British writer whose 'Common Sense' first called for independence.

He was a Boston Lawyer who represented British troops after the Boston Massacre.

Known to tar and feather tax collectors, raid British homes, and burn effigies.

Who ran the first post office established by the Second Continental Congress?

He was a Virginia delegate who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

He was a Boston Silversmith and led the midnight ride before the battle of Lexington.

Known as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest.

He appointed as Commander of the Colonial Army by the second Continental Congress.

Once helped the colonists in the Battle of Ticonderoga, but is now known as a traitor.