Very Important People of the American Revolution

Thomas Jefferson was an avid reader, an inventor, and a musician.

Who was an African American poet?

Paul Revere was a goldsmith that warned S. Adams and J. Hancock that the British soldiers were coming to arrest them.

Ethan Allen led the Green Mountain Boys to help Benedict Arnold get cannons and supplies from Fort Ticonderoga.

Sybil was gathering her father's militia on her ride and warned the local people about the British coming.

Who wrote Common Sense and the American Crisis?

Who was the leader of Great Britain during the American Revolution?

John Adams was a delegate of the Continental Congress.

Who posed as a teacher that became a spy for George Washington, and he was caught and sentenced to death by hanging? 

Benedict Arnold was a field general in the Continental Army who had success in leading many of his men in battle.

Who took over her husband's cannon when her husband was killed in the Battle of Fort Washington?

 Who said, "...give me liberty or give me death..."?

Sybil Ludington rode 20 miles on her midnight ride, while Paul Revere rode 40 miles on his midnight ride.

Who said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."?

Who was a publisher that first printed the D. of I. with all the names of the signatories on it?

Benjamin Franklin invented: lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin Stove.

Who was America's first traitor?

Who wrote, "In every human...God has implanted a principle, which we call Love of Freedom..."?

Who was President of the SecondContinental Congress that signed his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence?

Who was the Prussian military leader that helped train the Continental Army into a professional army at Valley Forge?

Who was the leader of the Continental Army? 

Who pretended to be a man to fight for the Continental Army? Her tombstone reads "the female soldier."

Molly Pitcher brought water to the men manning the cannons during the Battle ofMonmouth, and she helped fire the cannon.

Bernardo de Galvez was the Spanish Governor of Louisiana that supplied the French Army.

Who wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls..."?

Who was General Washington's senior aide during the Revolutionary War?

Who wrote out the Declaration of Independence?

Who said, "I have not yet begun to fight!"?

Martha Washington was the first women to be the 1st Lady of the United States of America.

Who helped Thomas Jefferson write out the Declaration of Independence?

Lydia Darragh was a Quaker that spied on the British to give intelligence to George Washington.

Who brought supplies to Valley Forge and helped cheer up the soldiers at Valley Forge?

Who was in charge of hauling 56 heavy British cannons 200 miles from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston (Dorchester Heights)?

Who wrote a letter to her husband telling him to remember the ladies in the Declaration of Independence?

Marquis de Lafayette was a Spanish military nobleman that came to help the Americans fight for their cause/freedom.

Who was a Scottish American Naval officer that fought in a famous sea battle between Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis?

Benjamin Franklin was a diplomat in Germany for America.

Alexander Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers to help pass the Declaration of Independence.