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British monarch who thought the colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country. |
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King George III |
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Indian chief who tried to drive white settlers out of the Ohio region. |
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Chief Pontiac |
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Prime minister of Great Britian enforced Navigation Acts, Proclomation of 1763, and the Stamp Act. |
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George Grenville |
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Colonial leader who helped orginize the Sons of Liberty, the Boston Tea Party, and the Committees of Correspondence. |
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Samuel Adams |
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British Prime Minister who had Parliament enact laws that taxed lead, painter's colors, glass, paper, and tea. |
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Charles Townshend |
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Former slave who was one of the five men killed at the Boston Massacre. |
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Crispus Attucks |
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Govenor of Massachusetts following the passage of the Intolerable Acts; commander of British troops at Lex&Con. |
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Thomas Gage |
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Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who said,"Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
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Patrick Henry |
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Patriot leader who, along with Sam Adams, escaped capture by British at Lexington. |
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John Hancock |
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American hero who warned the minutemen that the British were marching out of Boston towards Lex&Con. |
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Paul Revere |
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Author of the pamphlet "Common Sense" which changed the minds of many people in favor of separation from Great Britian. |
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Thomas Paine |
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Leader of the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont who, along with Benedict Arnold, captured Fort Ticonderoga. |
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Ethan Allen |
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Commander of British forces at Bunker Hill who succeeded General Thomas Gage as British commander-in -chief. |
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William Howe |
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Person who put,"...these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states." in the Declaration. |
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Thomas Jefferson |
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Young hero who just before being hung said,"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
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Nathan Hale |
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General who planned the ill-fated British invasion of New York State, and the loser of the crucial Battle of Saratoga. |
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John Burgoyne |
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American commander who won the Battle of Saratoga, the turning point of the Revolutionary War. |
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Horatio Gates |
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Victorious general in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. |
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George Washington |
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Colonial officer who comitted a treasonous act when he attempted to turn West Point over to the British. |
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Benedict Arnold |
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Captain of the "Bonhomme Richard" who declared," I have not yet begun to fight!" |
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John Paul Jones |
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Frontiersmen who captured Kaskaskia and Vincennes. |
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George Rogers Clark |
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Daring leader known as the "Swamp Fox" for his swift hit-and-run raids against the British forces in the Carolinas. |
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Francis Marion |
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Washington's most trusted adviser who inflicted heavy losses on Cornwallis in North Carolina prior to the Battle of Yorktn. |
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Nathaniel Greene |
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Kept Cornwallis' troops pinned down until the French fleet and the armies of Washington and Rochambeau got to Yorkt. |
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Marquis de Lafayette |
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Young woman who gained fame for carrying a pitcher of water to the hot and wounded American soldiers during the battl |
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Molly Pitcher |
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