5th Social Studies - Chapter 7 American Revolution Content

wife of George Washington who traveled to be with her husband in winter quarters

• Sybil Ludington

• Deborah Sampson

• Martha Washington

• Margaret Corbin

rode more than 40 miles to tell Americans of a British attack

• Martha Washington

• Sybil Ludington

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Abigail Adams

pretended to be a man and dressed in men's clothes so that she could fight during the war

• Abigail Adams

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Martha Washington

• Deborah Sampson

was wounded after taking her husband's place in battle

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Martha Washington

• Margaret Corbin

• Abigail Adams

wrote poems, plays, and stories about people fighting for freedom

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Abigail Adams

• Margaret Corbin

• Martha Washington

argued for freedom in letters she wrote to her husband and cared for children made homeless by the war

• Abigail Adams

• Martha Washington

• Sybil Ludington

• Margaret Corbin

an enslaved person from Virginia and a spy for George Washington

• Peter Salem

• Thayendanegea

• James Armistead

• Martha Washington

a free African American who fought the British at the Battle of Concord

• Thayendanegea

• James Armistead

• Peter Salem

• King George III

a Mowhawk leader who hoped to stop settlers from moving West

• James Armistead

• Peter Salem

• Thayendanegea

• James Adams

a German soldier who taught the American troops better ways to march and fight when he arrived at Valley Forge

• George Washington

• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

• Benedict Arnold

• Marquis de Lafayette