Courageous Women
The first person to be the wife of one U.S. president and the mother of another.
The first popular African American woman poet. She was also the first African American and the first slave to publish a book of poems.
Phillis Wheatley
The daughter of the chief of the Mohawk Tribe and an influential ally to Great Britain.
Mary Molly Brandt
First vice president and second president of the United States.
John Adams
Coined the phrase "No taxation without representation!" Was struck by lightning.
James Otis
An early American writer of poetry, plays, and history, whose brother was a political activist against the British. She hosted protest meetings in her home after her brother was beaten by British Soldiers.
Mercy Otis Warren
Working as a spy, he gained the trust of General Cornwallis and Benedict Arnold, providing information that allowed American forces to prevail at the Battle of Yorktown.
James Armistead
The British general who commanded all British forces in North America for more than 10 years.
Thomas Gage
Commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, chairman of the convention that wrote the United States Constitution, and the first president of the United States.
George Washington
Born in Boston and leader of the Sons of Liberty
Sam Adams
16-year-old girl who rode her horse nearly 40 miles (65 km) on unfamiliar roads to spread the alarm that the British were invading.
Sybil Luddington
The first American to die at the Boston Massacre. Probably an escaped slave.
Crispus Attucks
A commander in chief of the British army in North America. He was sent in 1775 to reinforce General Thomas Gage in the Siege of Boston.
William Howe
The author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the third president of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
The man whose name heads the list of signers of the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
Served for more than a year in the Continental Army while disguised as a man.
Deborah Samson
A spy who said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Today he is remembered mainly as the king who lost the American colonies.
King George III
Born on the island of Nevis, he was the nation’s first secretary of the treasury.
Alexander Hamilton
He rode to warn American patriots northwest of Boston, Massachusetts, that the British intended to raid Lexington and Concord.
Paul Revere
Woman who repeatedly carried water back and forth from a well to cool both the cannons and the exhausted soldiers. Legend also has it that she took her husband’s place at the cannon when he collapsed from the heat.
Molly Pitcher
Helped draft both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Inventor of the lightning rod (among MANY other things!)
Benjamin Franklin
Famed for leading a small force against the British at Fort Ticonderoga and winning a bloodless surrender on May 10, 1775.
Ethan Allen