Chapter 5

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Georg 3rd

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became king of England at age 22,in 1760, but poorly equipped for task in knowledge and temperament. resign of nearly 60 yrs included the loss of the American colonies, which labled him a tyrant,industrialization of great britain and resistance to France

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Pontiac

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Ottawa chief, he organized an Indian uprising along northwest fronteir in 1763, killed thousands of settlers and beseiged Fort Detroit

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Patrick Henry

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Fiery partriot, proposed the Virginia Resolves in known for his dramatic speeches fo revoltion, once proclaming, " Give me liberty or give me death!"

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Charles Townshend

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Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, the 1767 plan to raise revenue put duties on various imports to America, including glass, lead, paper and tea.

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Lord North

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Prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782, he favored repeal for the Twonshend Duties, which led to three years of relative calm before conflict with American resumed and led to independence.

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John Hancock

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A wealthy Boston merchant, served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first to sign the Declaration of Independance largley.

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Samuel Adams

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Boston patriot
formed the committees of correspondence, called the mass meeting immediately prior to the Bost Tea Party and was a delegate of the First and Second Continental Congress

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Paul Revere

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Boston silversmith and partriot,
fame rest on his popular engraving of the Boston Massacre and his legendary midnight ride to Lexington to warn of the dispatch of British soldiers.

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John Adams

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Boston lawyer and political philosopher, one of the most influential Founding Fathers. Assisted with the writing of the Declaration of Indp. and became the nations first vice president and second president

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Thomas Paine

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English immigrant called of American independence in his widely read pamphlet, Common Sense 1776, Honored pro revolution series.

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Thomas Jefferson

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Virginia patriot and political philosopher was the primary author of the Declaration of Independance, served as nations first secretary and third president.

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Lord Cornwallis

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a leading british general during the Revoltuionary War, surrendered his forces at Yorktown Va, in 1781 led to the end of the war.

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John Burgoyne

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led 6,000 men british force south from Canada to cut of New England from rest of rebelling colonies, but was defeated in two battles at Saratoga and surrenderd his force. American victory convinced the Frinsh to support the revolution.

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Horatio Gates

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american general was credited with the key victory at Saratoga in 1777, but later conspired to replace Geoge Washington as commander and suffered a humiliating miltary rout at Camden, S.C. in 1780

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Benedict Arnold

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american general served valiantly in victories at Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga, as well as the invasion of Canada, but conspiring unseccessfull to hand over the british the fort at West Point, N.Y

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Nathaniel Greene

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George Washington's most skill full and knowlegdable general, he outmaneuvered the British Army during its Southern campaign, causing its fatful retreat ot Yorktown for supplies and rest