People & Events of the Revolution

British king during the Revolutionary era

• King George III

• John Adams

• George Washington

• The Marquis de Lafayette

Colonists in Boston were shot after taunting British soldiers.

• Surrender at Yorktown

• Battles at Lexington & Concord

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

British general who surrendered at Yorktown

• Paul Revere

• George Washington

• Lord Cornwallis

• Thomas Paine

Samuel Adams and Paul Revere led patriots in throwing tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes

• Boston Massacre

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• First Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

Championed the cause of independence; eventually became the second president of the United States.

• King George III

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Great Britain and to promote independence.

• Declaration of Independence

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battles at Lexington & Concord

• First Continental Congress

Commander of the Continental Army; eventually became the first president of the United States.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Thomas Paine

The first armed conflicts of the Revolutionary War

• Battle of Saratoga

• Boston Tea Party

• Surrender at Yorktown

• Battles at Lexington & Concord

Major author of the Declaration of Independence; eventually became the third president of the United States.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

This was the first major battle of the war

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle at Bunker Hill

• Battles of Lexington & Concord

• Surrender at Yorktown