B2: People Of the American Revolution

On the Committee of Correspondence & wrote to husband so we know about the Continental Congress.

• Abigail Adams

• Martha Washington

• Michelle Obama

• Laura Bush

An attorney in the Boston Massacre case and a delegate from Massachusetts for the 2nd Cont. Congress.

• Haym Solomon

• John Adams

• George Washington

• James Armistead

Protested the Sugar Act and was the leader of "Sons of Liberty" which fought British Taxation.

• John F Kennedy

• Crispus Attucks

• Samuel Adams

• Yosemite Sam

African-American slave who was a spy for the colonist, posing as escaped slave with the British

• George Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Crispus Attucks

• James Armistead

The first colonist killed at Boston Massacre; free black man

• Patrick Henry

• Crispus Attucks

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

Like Paul Revere, he made an all night ride to warn about the British; considered first African-American elected to public office

• Wentworth Cheswell

• Thomas Paine

• Haym Solomon

• Thomas Jefferson

Delegate from Penn. in the Continental Congress; an inventor, printer, publisher, scientist

• William Bradford

• Cotton Mather

• Phillis Wheatey

• Benjamin Franklin

Spaniard who helped in the Revolution; protected New Orleans and Louisiana.

• Bernardo de Galvez

• John Paul Jones

• Christopher Columbus

• Napoleon

Gave speech "Give me Liberty, or give me death." which convinced Virginia House of Burgesses to join war.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Paine

• Haym Solomon

A Founding Father, wrote most of the Declaration of Independence; delegate from Virginia.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams