American Revolution Figures Quiz

Wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break with England and The Crises to encourage soldiers to continue the fight.

• Thomas Paine

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

• George Washington

Main author of the Declaration of Independence.

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

Spanish governor of Louisiana who helped the Americans by providing weapons, ammo, and other supplies as well as opening the Port of New Orleans for the Americans.

• Bernardo de Galvez

• Antonio de Ulloa

• Manuel Gayoso de Lemos

• Esteban Rodríguez Miró

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who urged the colony to join the Patriots when he said “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Benjamin Franklin

Polish born Jewish immigrant who helped finance the revolution. He also served as a spy convincing many Hessians to desert the British military.

• Haym Solomon

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

Defended the British Soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Served on the Continental Congress and the Declaration writing committee (later the 2nd president of the U.S.).

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

Member of the Sons of Liberty, secretly helped to organize the Boston Tea Party, and organizer of the Committees of Correspondence, later a member of the Continental Congress.

• Samuel Adams

• John Hancock

• Paul Revere

• Benjamin Franklin

American Naval Captain who said, “I have not yet begun to fight!” before sinking a British ship. Later called the father of the U.S. Navy.

• John Paul Jones

• Horatio Nelson

• David Farragut

• Stephen Decatur

Led American troops on the frontier.

• George Roger Clark

• Benedict Arnold

• John Paul Jones

• Nathaniel Greene

Inventor, writer, printer, diplomat, and statesmen who served at both Continental Congresses, was on the Declaration Committee, he was an ambassador to France and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• George Washington