Road to Revolution: Key Figures and Events in America's Fight for Independence

1. Chapter 7: Road To Revolution People

2. Eliza Lucas Indigo dye was exported to England to dye clothes. Plantation owner who introduced the cash crop indigo to South Carolina.

3. Benjamin Franklin Signer of Declaration of Independence, negotiated France\American Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Paris

4. George Washington Appointed General of the Continental Army in 1775 and successfully wins the Revolutionary War for the 13 colonies.

5. Sons of Liberty Patriot organization responsible for the Boston Tea Party and the tar and feathering of British officials

6. Daughters of Liberty No British made cloth! Organization that signed pledges against drinking tea and published notices in the local newspaper promising they would not buy British-made cloth. No Tea

7. John Adams John Adams (center) Editing the Declaration of Independence Massachusetts delegate to Continental Congress who forcefully argued for independence from Great Britain. John Adams (far left)

8. Patrick Henry Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses Virginia firebrand who argued for independence from Great Britain saying “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

9. Samuel Adams Sam Adams helped plan the Boston Tea Party(1773). Sons of Liberty founded in 1765. Massachusetts firebrand, Sons of Liberty leader, started Committee of Correspondence, and was a delegate to Continental Congress.

10. John Hancock John Hancock owned a shipping company and was Townsend Acts, Tea Act, and Coercive Acts. Massachusetts patriot, Sons of Liberty leader, president of the Second Continental Congress, who signed the Declaration of Independence first (the signature was quite large)

11. General Thomas Gage General Gage commanded British troops in Boston British General who was ordered to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock

12. Paul Revere Paul Revere was a silversmith and Sons of Liberty member. Man went on a famous ride to warn citizens before the British marched through Lexington on their way to Concord.

13. William Prescott Prescott told the Patriot soldiers “Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” Man who led the Patriots at the Battle of Bunker (Breed’s) Hill British soldiers marching toward Prescott’s Massachusetts Patriot troops at Bunker Hill.

14. Dr. Joseph Warren John Trumbull, The Death of General Warren, oil on canvas, 1789. He signaled two riders that the British were coming; he later fought and died at Breed’s Hill, knowing he would likely give his life for the cause of liberty