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23 Cards in this Set
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Benedict Arnold |
An American general who betrayed the Patriots by switching sides |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence |
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George Washington |
Commander of the Continental Army |
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Haym Salomon |
A Polish immigrant who helped finance the Revolution and spied on the British |
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Wentworth Cheswell |
African American soldier at the Battle of Saratoga |
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Abigail Adams |
She wanted her husband to protect women's rights when creating the Declaration of Independence |
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Paul Revere |
One of the riders who went to Lexington to warn them the British army was on its way |
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George III |
King of England during the Revolutionary War |
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Baron von Steuban |
Prussian general who helped train Washington's troops |
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Thomas Paine |
Author of Common Sense and The Crisis |
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James Armistead |
A slave asked by Lafayette to spy on the British army |
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Samuel Adams |
Organized the Boston Tea Party and the committees of correspondence |
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Crispus Attucks |
Free African American who died at the Boston Massacre |
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Mercy Otis Warren |
She wrote plays supporting independence |
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John Paul Jones |
A navy captain who said, "I have not yet begun to fight!" |
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Marquis de Lafayette |
French officer who came to help George Washington |
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Nathan Hale |
Before his execution he said, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." |
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Benjamin Franklin |
He was on both the committees for the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
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John Adams |
As a lawyer he defended the soldiers from the Boston Massacre and was on the committees for the Declaration and the Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
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William Blackstone |
A jurist (judge) who also believed in natural rights |
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Patrick Henry |
A speaker for the Patriot cause, he said, "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" |
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John Locke |
His ideas about "natural rights" influenced Jefferson's writings. |
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Bernardo de Galvez |
The Spanish governor of Louisiana who sent supplies to the Patriot army. |
