6.c Key People of the Revolution and Key Events Part II

This silversmith from Massachusetts is famous for participating in the Boston Tea Party, making the engraving of the Boston Massacre, and warning Lexington the British were coming.

Which of the following did not happen before the Battle of Yorktown?

This representative for Massachusetts at the Continental Congresses would create the committee to write the Declaration of Independence. He later became the 2nd US president.

As the Continental Army and French troops surronded English forces at Yorktown, who blocked the English's escape along the York River and Chesapeake Bay?

The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War officially and England recognized the United States for the first time.

This brilliant man from Pennsylvania did everything from being a leader at the Continental Congresses to inventing to discovering electricity in lightning.

Who was the king of England during the American Revolutionary War? He also signed into law taxes and strict trade laws which angered the colonists.