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Unit 3 People Identification
For each definition, identify the person being described. Except for Native Americans and monarchs, people have full names that are capitalized. All names need to be spelled correctly
- ______Boston lawyer who defended British soldiers accused of
murder for the Boston Massacre in 1770, even though he got them off, he became one of the revolutionary leaders from Massachusetts
2. ______Boston Sons of Liberty leader who founded the committees of correspondence, was hiding in Lexington when the British march that direction in April, 1775
3. ______African American sailor who was one of the victims of the Boston Massacre in March 1770
4. ______King of England from 1760-1820, began sending troops to the American colonies in 1765, approved numerous laws that taxed and tried to control the colonies
5. ______American general who lead the Americans to victory at the Battles of Saratoga, later in 1780, upset over his lack of recognition for his efforts he agreed to turn over the American fort at West Point to the British
7. ______Head of the Massachusetts committee of safety, was hiding in Lexington in April 1775, president of the 2nd Continental Congress and the 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence
8. ______Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who supported the break from England, declared in 1775, “I know not what course others may take. But as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
9. ______Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania who was part of the committee assigned to draft a declaration of independence in 1776. Spent most of the war in France trying to get an alliance with the French, finally succeeded in 1778.
10. ______Delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress from Virginia, part of the committee to draft a declaration of independence in the summer of 1776. Did the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence
11. ______Virginia delegate who introduced the resolutions on independence in June 1776
12. ______Massachusetts lawyer who claimed that Parliament didn’t have the right to tax colonists since they had no representation there, coined the phrase “Taxation without representation is tyranny”
13. ______His pamphlet Common Sense, published in early 1776, argued that the time had come for America to break with England. His pamphlet called The American Crisis helped raised spirits when the army was doing poorly.
14. ______Boston silversmith who is remembered for riding to warn the countryside that the British were coming in April 1775
15. ______Spanish governor of Louisiana who attacked the British in Florida and the lower Mississippi River area, kept the British from attacking America from the South
16. ______American naval commander who won fame in 1779 when he defeated the Serapis off the coast of Britain famous for saying, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
17. ______French nobleman who volunteered to serve in the Continental Army for no pay, became a general in the army, a park in Washington DC and a city in Louisiana bear his name. His real name is Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Mortier
18. ______German officer who came to help the American cause in 1778, he trained the American to fight in lines and columns and how to handle their weapons
19. ______Delegate from Virginia who was chosen by the Continental Congress in May 1775 to be commander of the Continental Army. As commander of the army, he managed to keep his army together long enough to get the British to end the war
20. ______An early advocate for women’s rights; a sharp observer of the political scene, she shared her concerns about the future of American government with her husband in a series of letters that today help historians better understand the mindset of the Revolutionary era
21. ______A Polish Jew, he was a successful merchant and banker who supported the patriot cause through service as a spy and through helping to finance the war with generous donations of money that were never repaid.
2. 22.______Born a slave in Virginia; Marquis de Lafayette recruited him as
a spy for the Continental Army. He provided Lafayette with vital information on British troop movements that contributed to the American victory at Yorktown.
You may need to use an outside source to identify the following people.
23. ______wife and sister of Massachusetts Patriots; she anonymously wrote several propaganda plays and poems supporting the Patriot cause. She also wrote one of the first histories of the Revolution.
24. ______African American patriot and member of the Newmarket, NH committee of safety. He, like Paul Revere, rode to warn his community of the impending, British invasion in 1775; served in the army and fought at the Battles of Saratoga; Having been elected to positions such as town selectman, auditor, assessor, he was the first African-American elected to public office in U.S. History