American Revolution Important People

Abigail Adams

• Wrote letters to her husband and said "Remember the ladies"

• delegate from Massachusetts who was a leader in the independence movement

• female writer during the Revolution

John Adams

• delegate from Massachusetts who was a leader in the independence movement. He became the second president

• signed the Declaration of Independence

• King of England during the Revolution

Wentworth Cheswell

• delegate from Massachusetts who was a leader in the independence movement

• African American who fought in the Revolutionary War

• signed in the Declaration of Independence

Samuel Adams

• founder of the Sons of Liberty; organized the Boston Tea Party

• Patriot from Virginia who said "Give me liberty, or give me death"

• French noblemen who helped Patriots

Mercy Otis Warren

• wrote letters to her husband and said "Remember the Ladies"

• female writer during the Revolution; "conscience of Revolution

James Armistead

• African American spy in the Revolution

• African American who fought in the Revolutionary War

• African American killed in the Boston Massacre

Benjamin Franklin

• Patriot from Virginia, "Give me liberty, or give me death"

• signed the DOI, convinced the French to form a US alliance; helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, 1783

Bernardo de Galvez

• kept important port of New Orleans open for the Patriots

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

• founder of the Sons of Liberty and Committees of Correspondence

Crispus Attucks

• African American killed in the Boston Massacre

• African American who fought in the Revolutionary War

• Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

Thomas Jefferson

• wrote the Declaration of Independence

• signed the Declaration of Independence

• Commander in Chief of the Continental Army