Who Am I? American Revolution
Person
Benjamin Franklin
Occupation(s)
Significance: Contributions & Facts
*Writer, Printer
*Inventor
*Patriot
*Diplomat
*Negotiated an alliance with France during
the Revolution (France helped colonists)
*Helped write both the Declaration of
Independence & the Constitution
*Wrote the Albany Plan & drew Join or Die
*King of England
*King of England during French & Indian War
and the American Revolution
*forced the hand of the colonists to rebel
King George III
Patrick Henry
*Lawyer
*Patriot,
*Member of the
Virginia House of
Burgesses
*Member of the House of Burgesses
*Patriot; delegate at Continental Congress
*helped draft the Constitution of 1776
*”Give me Liberty or give me death!”
*“If this be treason, make it the most of it.”
Patriot
*patriot & founder of Sons of Liberty
*organized the Boston Tea Party
*delegate at Second Continental Congress
*signer of Declaration of Independence
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Patriot,
President of the
2nd Continental
Congress
Signed Declaration of Independence
Signed his name large enough for King
George to see it without his glasses
Backwoodsman,
Colonial
Commander
* Leader of the Green Mountain Boys
Attacked and capture British Fort
*Ticonderoga
Captured needed supplies and artillery
Patriot
*Second messenger who rode to warn
colonists that the British were headed to
Lexington & Concord
Ethan Allen
William Dawes
Person
Occupation
*Silversmith
Paul Revere
*Officer in the
colonial militia
Lawyer
*Vice President
John Adams
*President
Benedict Arnold
Commander
in the
Colonial &
British army
Significance: Contributions & Facts
*Patriot in the American Revolution
*Member of the Sons of Liberty
*Warned the Colonial militia that British forces
were marching on Lexington and Concord.
*Engraved the famous depiction of the Boston Massacre
*Hated British troops being in Boston, but defended the
British soldiers involved in the Boston Mass acre
*Helped write the Declaration of Independence
& the Treaty of Paris of 1783
*Delegate at Continental Congress
*Vice-president for G. Washington & 2nd President of U.S.
Most Famous Traitor
in American History
Commander of the colonial militia at Lexington, MA.
Commander
of colonial
militia
He said, “Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they
mean to have war let it begin here!”
Captain John Parker
*1 of the 5 colonists killed in the Boston Massacre
Former slave
Crispus Attucks
patriot
Financial
minister for
Great Britain
*1st African American to die in the American
Revolution
Taxed the colonists
The Townshend Acts
Charles Townshend
General in
the British
army
Gen. Thomas Gage
*Sent to keep peace btwn colonists & Native Americans
*Appointed governor of Massachusetts in 1774
replacing Thomas Hutchinson.
*Began a series of raids to seize colonial weapons.
*On April 18/19, 1775, Gage ordered 700 British troops
to march to Concord to capture colonial powder & guns.