The Revolutionary Era Review

prominent Boston rebel

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Thomas Paine

Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress; wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Thomas Paine

Massachusetts delegate to the Second Continental Congress; suggested Washington should lead the Continental Army

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Thomas Paine

influential writer who supported American independence

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abigail Adams

• Thomas Paine

wife of John Adams who became famous for her letters to her husband

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abigail Adams

• Thomas Paine

French noble who came to help the American cause

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abigail Adams

• Thomas Paine

Kentucky pioneer who led colonial forces against the British in the West

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abigail Adams

• George Rogers Clark

commander of colonial forces in the Carolinas

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Thomas Jefferson

• Nathaniel Greene

• George Rogers Clark

British commander in the South

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Charles Cornwallis

• Nathaniel Greene

• George Rogers Clark

general who led 6,000 French soldiers on the side of the Americans

• Count de Rochambeau

• Charles Cornwallis

• Nathaniel Greene

• George Rogers Clark