Chapter 6 People Flashcards
(18 cards)
Charles Townshend
Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed a new series of taxes on the colonists
Patrick Henry
Famous patriot known for the declaration “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Paul Revere, William Dawes, Dr. Samuel Prescott
Patriots who warned the people of Concord and Lexington of the advancing British
Ethan Allen
Commander of the “Green Mountain Boys”, captured Fort Ticonderoga
George Washington
Commander of the Continental Army during the War for Independence
Thomas Paine
Wrote the pamphlet entitled “Common Sense” that denounced British colonial policies
Thomas Jefferson
Led the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence
Marquis de LaFayette
Young French officer who assisted Washington in the War for Independence
Baron Von Steuben
German (Prussian) who helped Washington drill his troops into a disciplined army
Nathan Hale
Patriot spy captured and hanged by the British, famous for saying, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
General Cornwallis
British General who surrendered at Yorktown
General Horatio Gates
Patriot general who defeated Burgoyne at Saratoga, General of the southern campaign
John Paul Jones
Patriot sea captain famous for declaring, “I have not yet begun to fight!” Captain of the “Bonhomme Richard”
Thomas Sumpter and Francis Marion
Known respectively as “The Fighting Game Cock” and the “Swamp Fox”, waged guerrilla warfare against the British in the South
Joseph Brant
A Mohawk chief who helped the British in the War for Independence
Benedict Arnold
American patriot who turned traitor and joined the British
James Armistead
Black man who served as an American secret agent, reporting on British troop formations
William Pitt the Elder
Prime minister of England who sympathies with the colonists
