Greetings, Patriot!
He led the Continental Army during the Revolution.
George Washington
John Adams & Benjamin Franklin helped him write the Declaration of Independence in 1776
Thomas Jefferson
This royal proclamation told the colonists to stay on the east side of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
She authored one of the earliest accounts of the American Revolution.
Mercy Otis Warren
This battle proved to be the Turning Point of the War, because it convinced the French to help America.
Battle of Saratoga
Boston silversmith who road through the nights alerting the Minutemen that the British were coming to Lexington & Concord by sea!
Paul Revere
The Declaration was adopted in Philadelphia by the Second Continental Congress on this date -
July 4, 1776
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to persuade others to embrace the patriotic cause.
Common Sense
He married the wrong lady and turned traitor against the United States when he tried to surrender West Point to the British.
Benedict Arnold
Nobody knows who fired first, but the first shot of the American Revolution was heard HERE on April 19, 1775.
Lexington, Massachusetts
He was the first to give his life for the patriotic cause at the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Jefferson says THESE are endowed by the Creator and include Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Unalienable Rights
James Otis said Taxation without THIS is tyranny!
"Representation"
These German mercenaries fought with the British against the Americans, but Washington captured 900 of them at Trenton.
Hessians
Washington said that unless circumstances changed HERE during the Winter of 1777-78, his army would either "starve, dissolve or disperse."
Valley Forge
THIS failed beer brewer and his Sons of Liberty organized protests against Taxation Without Representation in Boston.
Samuel Adams
These formal complaints included -
He taxed us without our consent, and He has quartered troops amongst us...
Grievance against King George III
(grievances)
This example of Taxation Without Representation created a new tax on paper that had to be paid with silver coins.
Stamp Act (1765)
Young aristocrat from France who led American troops in battle for General Washington.
The Marquis de Lafayette
(Lafayette)
He was America's first naval hero and is considered to be the Father of the American Navy.
John Paul Jones
Enslaved man who spied on the British and passed along information to Lafayette.
Armistead, James Armistead
He signed his name in script so large, "King George will be able to read it without his spectacles!"
John Hancock
These punishments for the Boston Tea Party included laws closing the Port of Boston and dissolving the Massachusetts assembly.
Intolerable Acts
His surrender at Yorktown forced the British to recognize American independence
Lord Cornwallis
(General Cornwallis)
THIS document officially ended the war and forced Britain to recognize American independence
Treaty of Paris (1783)