Very Important People

of the Revolutionary War

Georgia Studies

Liberty Boys - Met in local taverns like Peter Tondee’s in Savannah to plan protests against the British

Sons of Liberty –a political group made up of American Patriots who met together to try to change the British government's treatment of the Colonies after the French and Indian War.

http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/story/liberty_boys

Whigs Tories

Anti-British Loyal to the King

Patriots Loyalists

Believed English colonists should have the same rights at Englishmen at home

Did not believe the colonists should have the same rights as English citizens did in England.

Georgia Chooses Sides

Nancy Hart

 

Nancy Hart

Patriot Nancy Hart glared at the five-armed Loyalists who burst into her Georgia cabin. Tradition says that the men had shot her last turkey and ordered her to cook it for them. Raids like this were common in the South, where feuding neighbors used the war as an excuse to fight each other. Both Patriots and Loyalists took part in the raids. Many women and children had moved out of Georgia, but the six-foot-tall, freckled Hart chose to stay and fight. She could shoot a gun as accurately as any man.  As she prepared the food, Hart planned her attack. When dinner was ready, the men sat down to eat. Seizing one of their muskets, Hart quickly shot and killed one man and wounded another. She kept the gun aimed on the others as her daughter ran for help. A group of nearby Patriots arrived and hanged the Loyalists.

Signed the Declaration of Independence

Political ally of General Lachlan McIntosh

Foe of Button GwinnettWalton and Gwinnett

battled to run GeorgiaHe was kicked out of office

and charged with crimes He was censured for his

role in a duel between McIntosh and Gwinnett in which Gwinnett died.

George Walton

He was one of 3 Georgia delegates to the Second Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Gwinnett County is named after him.

He died in a duel against Lachlan McIntosh.

Button Gwinnett

Physician, clergyman, and statesman

Signed the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia

16th governor of Georgia

Hall county is named after him.

Lyman Hall

American politician and Founding Father of the U.S.

Represented Georgia at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787; supported the constitution.

He was a founding trustee of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1785.

William Few

Representative in the Continental Congress for Georgia

Signed the ConstitutionServed in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate

Developed the plan for the founding of UGA – the nation’sfirst state-chartered school!

Abraham Baldwin