2nd Six Weeks Vocabulary

She had a close relationship with her husband John and the two wrote regularly about the political issues of the day. She famously argued for women's rights saying, that women would start a rebellion if they didn't have a voice.

• Abigail Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Martha Washington

• Rosie the Riveter

Scientist turned statesman. He came up with the Albany Plan of Union which proposed a united colonial government against the French. Although it failed to unite the colonies, it became a rallying cry for the Patriots.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Adams

A free African-American sailor from Boston, he was killed by a British bullet during the Boston Massacre. He would become an early hero for America’s struggle for freedom

• Crispus Attucks

• James Armistead

• Haym Salomon

• John Paul Jones

He was unanimously chosen to command the Continental Army against the British. His popularity helped him unite the American colonies. His army’s survival ensured that the Patriot’s cause could continue.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Paul Revere

A slave and spy who collected intelligence from the British Camp for Lafayette while feeding the British false information. His information helped pin down Cornwallis at Yorktown.

• James Armistead

• Crispus Attucks

• Wentworth Cheswell

• Patrick Henry

A Boston lawyer who was criticized for defending the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. He explained that law should be “deaf…to the clamors of the populace.” He was a Patriot but believed in justice. Later he helped draft the Declaration with Jefferson and Franklin. He and his wife Abigail wrote to each other frequently.

• James Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine

• Patrick Henry

An English philosopher who argued that men have natural rights. These rights are life, liberty and property. People create governments to protect these natural rights. If the government fails in this duty, it is the right of the people to overthrow it. Jefferson borrowed these ideas for the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• Samuel Adams

• Aristole

Wealthy Boston merchant and Patriot. He was the president of the Second Continental Congress which declared Independence. He signed the Declaration of Independence

• John Hancock

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Ben Franklin

Father of the United States Navy. Bold and daring, this officer scored many victories against the British on the sea. But his battle with the Serapis is what made him famous. When his own ship was rammed and the British officer demanded his surrender he replied, “I have not yet begun to fight!”

• John Paul Jones

• Captain De Grasse

• James Armistead

• Wentworth Cheswell

The British Monarch during the Revolutionary War. The American colonists hated him and saw him as a tyrant, or one who abuses their power. He told Parliament that the New England Colonies were "in a state of rebellion" and that "blows must decide" who would control America

• King George III

• George Washington

• King Louis VI

• King Charles III