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On-Level: Causes of the American Revolution (Chapter 6) People

For each definition, identify the person being described. Except for Native Americans and monarchs, people have full names. All names need to be spelled correctly and be properly capitalized.

1. ___________________________ Boston lawyer who defended British soldiers accused of murder for the Boston Massacre in 1770, even though they were cleared of charges, he still became one of the revolutionary leaders from Massachusetts

2. ___________________________ Leader of Boston Sons of Liberty; founded the committees of correspondence; hid in Lexington when the British marched that direction in April, 1775

3. ___________________________ African American sailor who was one of the victims of the Boston Massacre in March 1770

4. ___________________________ Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania who was part of the committee assigned to draft a declaration of independence in 1776

5. ___________________________ King of England from 1760-1820; began sending troops to the American colonies in 1765; approved numerous laws that taxed and tried to control the colonies

6. ___________________________ Head of the Massachusetts committee of safety; he was hiding in Lexington in April 1775; president of the 2nd Continental Congress and the 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence

7. ___________________________ Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who supported the break from England, he declared in 1765, “I know not what course others may take. But as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

8. ___________________________ Delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress from Virginia; part of the committee to draft a declaration of independence in the summer of 1776. He did the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence

9. ___________________________ Massachusetts lawyer who claimed that Parliament did not have the right to tax the colonies since they had no representation there, coined the phrase “No taxation without representation”

10. __________________________ His pamphlet Common Sense, published in early 1776, argued that the time had come for America to break with England

11. __________________________ Boston silversmith who is remembered for riding to warn the countryside that the British were coming in April 1775

12. __________________________ Delegate from Virginia who was chosen by the Continental Congress in May 1775 to lead the new American army

13. __________________________ America’s 1st African American poet, born in 1753, she wrote poems celebrating the patriot cause

14.___________________________ Early advocate for women’s rights; a sharp observer of the political scene, she shared concerns about the future of the American government with her husband in a series of letters that today help historians better understand the mindset of the Revolutionary era.

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