American Revolution Unit Exam Review Who Am I ?. American and British Political Leaders.
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George Grenville and Charles Townshend - British
• We were the Prime Ministers of England before the American Revolution.
• One of us passed the Stamp Act and the other taxes on paint, paper, lead, glass and tea.
• Americans objected to both taxes and also hated the Writs of Assistance that were included.
Sam Adams - American
• The Sons of Liberty, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Massacre and Tea Party were things I was involved in.
• I was from Massachusetts.
Thomas Jefferson - American
• I was a Virginian.• I was the principle
author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Paine - American
• In 1776 I wrote two pamphlets called Common Sense and The Crisis.
• Even though I did become a soldier, I fought most of the Revolution with my pen.
Patrick Henry - American
• “Give me liberty or give me death” was my most famous quote.
• I was from Virginia.
Benjamin Franklin - American
• I was a member of the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence, negotiated an alliance with France and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris.
• I called Pennsylvania my home.
John Hancock - American
• I was from Massachusetts.
• I was the President of the Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was written and signed.
• I was the first person to sign it.
Bernado de Galvez - Spain
• I was the Governor of Spanish Louisiana and secretly supplied the Americans with medicine, cloth, muskets and gunpowder.
John Adams - American
• I was on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence and was one of the American negotiators of the Treaty of Paris.
• My wife Abigail and I lived in Massachusetts.
Henry Knox
• I was George Washington’s artillery officer.
• During the winter of 1775 – 1776 I helped move the cannon from Ft. Ticonderoga to Boston.
• Later the British were forced to evacuate Boston.
Baron von Steuben – Prussia
• I am a Prussian officer who trained American soldiers during the 1777 – 1778 winter at Valley Forge.
• Not only did this occupy the soldier’s time but we came out of Valley Forge as a pretty good army.
Nathaniel Greene and Daniel Morgan
• We were the American commanders in the South from 1779 – 1781.
• Our armies fought Lord Cornwallis at Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse
Francis Marion
• My nickname was the “Swamp Fox” because my men came out of the South Carolina swamps and harassed the British
Nathan Hale
• I was the American spy hung in 1776 before the battle of Long Island.
• My last words were “I regret that I have one life to lose for my country”.
Benedict Arnold
• I helped Ethan Allen capture Ft. Ticonderoga, slowed the British at Valcour Island and helped win the Battles of Saratoga.
• There is a statue to my leg at the Saratoga Battlefield today.
Marquis de Lafayette
• I was a young French officer who served on George Washington’s staff.
• A street in Plattsburgh is named after me.
John Paul Jones
• I said, “I have not yet begun to fight”, in a naval battle between my ship, the Bonhomme Richard, and the British man of war, Serapis.
Horatio Gates
• I was the American commander at the 1777 Battles of Saratoga.
• This defeat of a British army ended the Three – Pronged Campaign and convinced France to enter the war on our side.
John Sullivan and James Clinton
• We led a campaign into Iroquois territory in 1779.
• Our job was to destroy the Iroquois ability to make war.
• The only battle fought during this campaign was the battle of Newtown
Paul Revere
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about me.
• I was a silversmith by trade but rode to spread the news of the British march on Lexington and Concord in 1775.
George Washington
• I was appointed Commander – in – Chief of the Continental Army in 1775 and served as its commander for the rest of the Revolution.
Seth Warner and John Stark
• In 1777, at the battle of Bennington, we won a key battle against the Hessians.
• Our victory really hurt General Burgoyne’s army.
Thaddeus Kosciusko and Casimir Pulaski
• We were two Polish officers who helped the Americans.
• One of us was a cavalry officer and the other an engineer.
Nicholas Herkimer
• My militia unit was ambushed at the battle of Oriskany as we went to relieve the seige of Ft. Stanwix in 1777. I was wounded in the leg but had myself propped against a tree so I could direct the action.
• I later died from my leg wound.
Count de Rochambeau
• I was the French general who joined George Washington and trapped Lord Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown.
• Cornwallis’ surrender was the last major battle of the American Revolution.
Peter Gansvoort
• Marius Willette and I commanded Ft. Stanwix when Barry St.Leger laid seige to the fort in 1777.
• We refused to surrender and eventually St. Leger was forced to retreat.
Richard Montgomery
• Benedict Arnold and I invaded Canada in 1775 and 1776.
• We attacked Quebec in a snowstorm.
• I was killed and Arnold was wounded in the leg.
Col. Barry St.Leger
• I was part of the Three – Pronged Campaign in 1777.
• I was supposed to move down the Mohawk Valley to Albany.
• My invasion was stopped at Ft. Stanwix.
Joseph Brant
• I was a Mohawk chief.• I led many of the raids
against the New York and Pennsylvania frontier after 1777.
Sir William Howe
• I was the first commander of the British army during the American Revolution.
• I defeated George Washington’s army at the battles for New York City in 1776 and Brandywine and Germantown in 1777.
Maj. Robert Ferguson
• I was a British officer who could have killed George Washington at the Battle of Brandywine but didn’t shoot.
• I was involved in the Battle of King’s Mountain in 1780.
General John Burgoyne
• I was overall commander of the Three – Pronged Campaign in 1777.
• My army captured Ft. Ticonderoga but after the battles at Freeman’s Farm and Bemis Heights I surrendered at Saratoga.
Chief Pontiac
• My 1763 uprising convinced the British Parliament to issue the Proclamation of 1763 to keep the white settlers and Native Americans apart.
Lord Charles Cornwallis
• I surrendered to General George Washington and Count de Rochambeau at Yorktown in 1781.
• This was the last major battle of the American Revolution.
Sir Henry Clinton
• I was commander of the British army from 1778 to the end of the war.
• My headquarters were in New York City but it was my decision to attack the south because there were so many loyalists there to support us.
Banastre Tarleton
• I was a British cavalry officer who fought in the South.
• I was beaten by Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens in 1781.
Sir John Johnson
• I was the son of Sir William Johnson.
• I was a Tory ranger.• I fought against the
Americans along the New York and Pennsylvania frontier.