People+of+the+Revolution

__﻿ __ = These are some of the great people that fought or even took some time out of there schedules to help out with trying to make our country independent. We should always try to atleast recognize them for their acts. =
 * =__ Samuel Adams __=
 * The stamp act law was inposed in 1765 to the people which stated everything they bought would have to be bought with the extra percentage of taxes.
 * Many people did not agree with them so they started a protest about it and decided not to import or buy anything from Britian untill the taxes were dropped.
 * Samuel Adams was an important leader for the protest of the stamp act. He got a mob to agree not to import anything from Britian that had to be bought with taxes.
 * Him and the help of some other leaders ended the stamo act in 1766.


 * ﻿ ﻿//**__Paul Rivere__**// 
 * ﻿Paul Rivere was important becuase he and an another man named William Dawers raced through the country side alerting everyone about how the Red Coats were coming.
 * Paul was also a patriot that was remebered for the night of April 18-19, 1775 for the warnig of the Red Coats.
 * He was also warning Patriots from Cambridge to Concord about how the Red Coats were coming to take their millitary supplies.


 * **//__Francis Maron __//**
 * Born near Georgetown S.C.
 * Terrorized entire British Army in S.C.
 * Learned indian techniques
 * ﻿He was a brilliant strategist
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Defied fifty warships of the greatest navy in the world.


 * **//__﻿__//**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">**//__Andrew Pickens__//**

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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Born September 19, 1739 in back country Pennsylvania. **
 * __//**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿ **//__**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Became a captain of the patriots in the military. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">November 19, 1775 at ninty-six he was with Major Andrew Williamson and 600 military men. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Participated in in Snow's campaignof 1775. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">He joined Williamson in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Allied themselves with the loyalist. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In 1778,Pickens joined Williamson again for a failed attemmp to recapture Augustus Gorgia. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿**//__Thomas Sumpter__//**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿**Born in Virginia, August 14 1734.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Son of William Sumpter**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Sargent in Virginia Military during the Indian War.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Travelled to South Carolina in 1760**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Served his country under 4 presidents.**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿**//__Thomas Jefferson__//** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Had a discussion with Adams about who should be the one to write the Declaration Of Independence **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**After a while Jefferson had agreed to write it.﻿﻿﻿﻿**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">People say that a few nights went by and his candle light was burnig all througgh the night, and so they knew he was doing a good job at writing the document.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">During the time he was writing it, he made different copies and they all showed how he kept scribbling things out and how he made corrections.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">He had 3 main parts of the document.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">First he was telling how the government belonged to the people. The kings should serve the citizens not just take ovev them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Second he was telling about all the evil things Britian did to America.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Third he writes as far as America believes we are now independent and should be free from britian.


 * __//**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿George Washington **//__
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿When congress was having meetings on how to decide what to do for the war with britian George was suppose to be an impact for them to be encouraged. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">George says himself "//not all my words were encouraging//". **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">George was a dominant millitary and political leader in the United States of America **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">He was the 1st president (1789-1797). **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">He was commander and cheif of the Continental Army. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Goerge had built a strong, finaced government that could be avoided from wars. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Goerge and Abraham Lincoln became known as an icon. **




 * <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿ <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿ <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">﻿**//__Benjamine Franklin__//**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">﻿Ben was the only one in pennsylvania highly favored independence.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">He was appointed to congress by Dickinson.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">He has made important inventions that are still being used today. Those inventions include the lightning rod, the franklin stove, and the bificol eyeglass.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Ben had cought a bad disease named the jointswhen he was 70.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Even though he was 70 and had the joints he wanted the exact sam thing that John Adams wanted, which is a free and independent nation.

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 * =__**Crispus Attucks**__=
 * =**Attucks was //a sailor// mulatto who was the first to get shot and killed in the most important war that is still being celebrated today.**=
 * =**Four other Americans died that night from the action.**=
 * =**Eventhough only five people were killed, Adams termed it a "massacre" of unguilty citizens by a tyrranical mother country.**=