STAAR Points 7 Flashcards
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- wrote common sense and American crisis urging colonist to support the patriot cause during the American Revolution
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Thomas Paine
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- Commander of the continental army, president of the constitutional convention, first president of the United States
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George Washington
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47.Wife of John Adams known for her stand on women’s rights in letters to her husband
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Abigail Adams
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48.patriot writer, first woman historian of the Revolution, published many plays and poems
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Mercy Otis Warren
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- African American patriot, one of the alarm riders who made the same midnight ride with Paul revere to warn that the British were coming
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Wentworth Cheswell
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- African American spy who worked for G. Washington at Yorktown
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James Armistead
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- Plush Jew who spied for the Americans, held by the British as a translator for the Hessians
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Haym Salomon
