VIPs

Question 1

King George III

Answer 1

Ruler of England during the American Revolution

Question 2

Abigail Adams

Answer 2

Supported independence and the right to vote for women and African Americans “Remember the ladies”

Question 3

James Armistead

Answer 3

African American slave that spied for the Continental Army

Question 4

Crispus Attucks

Answer 4

First colonists killed in the American Revolution at the Boston Massacre

Question 5

John Adams

Answer 5

Defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, supported separation form England, help to draft the Declaration of Independence

Question 6

Wentworth Cheswell

Answer 6

Fought in the Battle of Saratoga, first African American elected to public office in U.S.

Question 7

Sam Adams

Answer 7

Leader of Sons of Liberty, led protest, organized Committees of Correspondence

Question 8

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 8

Traveled to France to persuade the French government to provide military assistance, part the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence

Question 9

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 9

Primary author of the Declaration of Independence

Question 10

Marquis De Lafayette

Answer 10

Frenchmen who helped train soldiers at Valley Forge, brought military officers from France to help the colonists

Question 11

Patrick Henry

Answer 11

Convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to support independence, “Give me liberty or give me death”

Question 12

Thomas Paine

Answer 12

Englishmen that wrote “Common Sense” and supported independence

Question 13

Mercy Otis Warren

Answer 13

Wrote First History of the American Revolution, along with her husband helped establish Committee of Correspondence

Question 14

John Paul Jones

Answer 14

First American Naval Hero. “I have not yet begun to fight”

Question 15

George Washington

Answer 15

General of the Continental Army, unified the colonists behind movement for Independence