Unit 2/3 Significant Individuals

First colonists killed during the Boston Massacre

• King George III

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Paine

• Crispus Attucks

Helped finance the Continental Army; Jewish merchant

• Haym Solomon

• James Armistead

• John Locke

• Bernardo de Galvez

Negotiated with France to provide aid after the Battle of Saratoga

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

America's first naval hero, "Father of the Navy"

• Mercy Otis Warren

• John Paul Jones

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Wentworth Cheswell

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

• Benjamin Franklin

• Patrick Henry

French noble who helped train soldiers at Valley Forge

• Baron von Steuben

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Alexander Hamilton

• Bernardo de Galvez

Believed that government was a social contract and everyone has natural rights

• John Locke

• John Adams

• John Hancock

• Samuel Adams

Leader of the Sons of Liberty who organized boycotts and protests

• Samuel Adams

• Patrick Henry

• James Armistead

• John Hancock

Published the pamphlet called Common Sense that persuaded colonists to support independence

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

British General who surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown

• Charles Cornwallis

• George Washington

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Alexander Hamilton