Chapter 6 People Flashcards
Nathan Hale
1) Nathan Hale was a Connecticut Officer who volunteered for spy duty.
2) His mission was to collect info about British battle plans on Long Island.
3) His last words were “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Thomas Jefferson
1) Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence.
2) When he showed his work to the Congress, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin only made a few minor changes.
3) He became America’s 3rd president.
Marquis de Lafayette
1) Marquis de Lafayette was a French Noble.
2) He became a high ranking officer in Washington’s army.
3) When Lafayette was injured, Washington told the surgeon “Treat him as though he were my son.”
Baron Friedrich Von Steuben
1) Friedrich Von Steuben was a German Baron.
2) He helped train the Continental Army.
3) He knew how to transform raw recruits into soldiers.
John Paul Jones
1) The American ship “Bonhomme Richard” was under the control of John Paul Jones.
2) He fought side to side on sea with the British warship “Serapis”
3) When his ship was in tatters, he said “ I have not yet begun to fight.” Finally, the captain of the Serapis surrendered.
George Rogers Clark
1) Seeking to defend against attacks on the frontier, Virginia sent George Rogers Clark and a militia force to strike British forts.
2) Early in 1779, Clark and his men trudged across 200 miles.
3) Clark’s forces captured 2 Mississippi River outposts.
Deborah Sampson
1) Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man to join the army.
2) In order to keep her secret, she tended to her wounds when she got hurt in battle.
3) The added responsibilities of wartime gave women a new confidence.
Lord Charles Cornwallis
1) He was a British commander.
2) He carried the war in South Carolina to North Carolina and it looked like the British was unstoppable.
3) In 1781, Cornwallis headed towards Virginia, where he was trapped by American and French troops. He couldn’t escape from land or sea, so he surrendered. Victory at Yorktown was the last major battle of the war.
King George |||
1) He was the king of Britain.
2) He controlled all of the colonies.
3) When he received the Olive Branch Petition, he ignored it and called the colonists “an open rebellion.”
George Washington
1) George Washington formed an army to fight against the British.
2) He became the first president after the American Revolution.
3) Washington’s army suffered through the cruel winter of 1777-1778 in a hastily built camp at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Franklin
1) He was one of the founding fathers of America.
2) He wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack.
3) He discovered electricity in the sky.
Thomas Paine
1) He was the author of the 50 page pamphlet “Common Sense.”
2) He called King George ||| a “royal Brute.”
3) He said “Americans would be far better off if they governed themselves.
Benedict Arnold
1) He was with the Americans until he betrayed them and went with the British.
2) His wife was a strong Loyalist.
3) If you call someone a “Benedict Arnold,” you are calling someone a traitor.
John Locke
1) John Locke argued that people have certain natural rights, meaning that rights belong to every human being from birth.
2) He argued the idea of divine right, meaning that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God.
3) He also stated that people formed governments in order to protect their rights.
John Hancock
1) John Hancock was a delegate of the 2nd Continental Congress along with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
2) He was a Boston Merchant.
3) There is a building named after him in Chicago.
