American Revolution Study Guide Flashcards
Abigail Adams
Advocate for women’s rights
Paul Revere
Patriot whose engraving of the Boston Massacre inflamed anti-British feelings, he later rushed to Lexington to announce the arrival of British troops with John Dawes
King George III
Ruler of Great Britain during the American Revolution
Samuel Adams
Patriot from Boston who founded the Sons of Liberty and led the Boston Tea Party
George Washington
American military hero who led the Continental Army to victory, very popular among the colonists, later retired to his home at amount Vernon before becoming America’s first president
Thomas Jefferson
Patriot who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence
Patrick Henery
Patriot from Virginia who strongly spoke out against Britain and coined the phrase, “Give me liberty or give me death”
Marquis de Lafayette
French Nobleman who rushed to America to join the battle for American Independence
Benjamin Franklin
Oldest founder father created the Join or Die political cartoon and represented America at the Paris peace conference
Deborah Sampson
Women who bravely disguised herself as a man to fight with the army
Martha Washington
George Washington’s wife who made clothes for the troops at Valley Forge
Thomas Paine
Patriot who wrote the influential pamphlet Common Sense
Daughters of Liberty
Active patriot organization for women that in outraged colonists to boycott British goods
Sons of Liberty
Active patriot organization founded by Samuel Adams that participated in various protests against the British including the Boston Tea Party
Loyalists
Colonists who did not support separating from Britain
