Chapter+7+People

George Washingtonmedia type="custom" key="5568675" 1732-1799, commanded Continental armies during Revolution; first President of The United States. He was president from 1789-1797. His home state is Virgina.

media type="custom" key="5568547"1706-1790, he was a printer, writer, publisher,scientist, and inventor.He was the person who persuaded the French to come to help the colinists. Ben helped start the first public library, fire company, and hospital. Ben also wrote many poems; one of the poems is, Early to bed, Early to rise, makes a man heathy, wealthy, and wise.
 * __[[image:benfranklin.jpg width="117" height="139" caption="go.grolier.com"]]Benjamin Franklin__**

**__King George3 __** 1738-1820,He was the King of England, He placed taxes on the english colinists. //King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820. Under his guidance, Britain won the French and Indian War but lost the Revolutionary War. He was mentally unstable because of a disease called porphyria, and he was given to bouts of madness and unpredictability. He also didn't like his government officials very much. British soldiers stayed in the Ohio River Valley. (//[|Social Studies for Kids]//)//

**__Patrick Henry__** 1736-1799, Revolutionary leader and orater. A famous quote that he said was, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me give me liberty or give me death!"He became governor of the new commonwealth of Virginia in 1776 and worked tirelessly to support the revolution. His strong feelings of democracy were evident when he was the first American politician to call voters, "fellow citizens." He was against ratification of the Constitution, believing it endangered the rights of individuals and states. But upon it passing, he supported it and then worked for the passage of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, called the Bill of Rights.

A colonist towards independence long before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. This view gave way to negative assessments of Adams in the first half of the 20th century, in 1722-1803, he helped inspire the american revolution.Samuel Adams wanted more clolonists to know what was happening around the colonies. in 1772 Samuel and other colonial leaders in Boston set up Committees of Correspondence to share news with the other colonies. __**Crispus Attucks**__ 1723-1770 He was one of the five men killed by British soldiers, in the Boston Massacre.
 * __Samuel Adams__**

1735- 1818 He was a minuteman and he rode out on his horse to Lexington and Concord to warn Patriots that the British were coming. Paul Revere is the Son of Liberty and a Boston silversmith. He saved many colonial leaders on his midnight ride.
 * __Paul Revere:[[image:http://atb.grolier.com/atb-ol/media/4600/atbp1064t.jpg width="130" height="123" caption="Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" link="javascript:OpenBlurbWindow('/cgi-bin/media?templatename=/encyc/media.html&assetid=atbp1064&assettype=p',500,500,'media','yes')"]][[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg/220px-J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg width="117" height="142" link="http://tbeamericanrevolution.wikispaces.com/wiki/File:J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg"]]__**

__**John Adams:**__ 1735-1826 He was the 2nd president of the United States of America. John Adams was an important boston lawyer.

__**Mercy Otis Warren:**__ 1728-1814 She was a Patriot author that wrote scripts that humiliated British leaders.

__**James Madsion:**__ 1751-1836 he was the 4th president of the United states, wrote most of the constitution and wrote the entire bill of wrights and known as the father of our consitution. he entered politics in 1776, the begining of the american revolution.

__**Minute Men:**__ //American soldiers who got their name because they could be ready to right "at a minute's notice." They saw their first action at Lexington and Concord and gained fame from there. The first minutemen were from Massachusetts, but other states soon had their own regiments.// ([])

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.
 * __Thomas Jefferson:__**