People 2
He became the new Hanover king of England in 1760
King George III
The name given to those who opposed independence
Tories or Loyalists
The person that led the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The location for the 1st/2nd Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
What did the Europeans call the French&Indian War?
7 Years' War
Patriot that was hanged for being a spy
Nathan Hale
The person that spoke out against the Sugar Act
James Otis
Missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
The 1754 plan by Ben Franklin to unify the colonies
Albany Plan
Polish Jew financier
Haym Solomon
The young Irishman who defended the colonial cause in Parliament
Edmund Burke
Richard Henry Lee
German mercenaries that were hired by George III
Hessians
author of " Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies"
John Dickinson
Mercantile theory/ mercantilism
Prussian drillmaster
Baron von Steuben
Turning point of the WFI
Battle of Saratoga
Who became the new Chancellor of the Exchequer and caused another crisis with the colonies?
Charles Townshend
The Patriot that captured the frontier outposts of Kaskaskia and Vincennes
George Rogers Clark