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I was the diplomats and pleasant to the king so I was sent to England to try reason with the king

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Benjamin Franklin

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I wrote the book Common Sense

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Thomas Paine

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We were slave owners. We inherited it from our parents

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Thomas Jefferson and Washington

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I hated slavery and founded the first anti slavery society in America

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Benjamin Franklin and his friends

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My engraved picture of the Boston Massacre got the colonist all fired up

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Paul Revere

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I had an army of untrained volunteers, no uniforms, no supplies, but had the brains

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George Washington

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Alothough there was a Declaration committee, I was the one who wrote them all down on paper

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Tom Jefferson

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I defended the British shoulders who were involved in the Boston Massacre because I thought they were entitled to a fair trial

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John Adams

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I started the committee of correspondence

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Samuel Adams

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The “Old Fox”

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George Washington

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I was the one who rode to Lexington and Concord to warn that the British were coming

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Paul Revere

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