Question | Answer |
-Military Governor of Massachusetts -Sent there to enforce Cohersive acts | General Thomas Gage |
-Created a general government (Like Albany plan) but failed | Joseph Gallaway |
-Revolutionary thinker -wrote: "The Leviathan" -"Natural state of man is nasty brutal and short" -we have to engage in ta social contract | Thomas Hobbes |
-Revolutionary thinker -Wrote: "Two treaties on government" -Government cant take life, liberty, or property | John Locke |
-Revolutionary thinker -Wrote: "The spirit of the laws" -Allowed idea of separation of powers | Charles de Montesque |
-Chief of artillery that seized British cannons -Caused British to flee out of Boston | Henry Knox |
-Wrote: "Common sense" - Gave first voice outlining independence -Went to France to help in revolution | Thomas Paine |
-Good with tactics & fought battles in his HQ -Got credit for the Battle of Saratoga -Replaced because of the fail at the Battle of Camden | Horatio Gates |
-Helped the army by giving out water at the Battle of Monmouth -Took over cannons after a soilder died | Molly Pitcher |
-Two British brothers who were sympathetic towards the American cause -Seized NY | William & Richard Howe |
-Behind the REAL victory of Saratoga -Lost his leg -Gained command of West Point but planned to give it to the British to become an officer | Benedict Arnold |
- Dragoons -Waxhalls massacre - Burnt churches and houses | Banister Tarleton |
- Southern Gorilla warfare -Used milita in creative ways | Nathaniel Green & Daniel Morgan |
-1st American spy -"I regret that I have only one life to live for my country" | Nathaniel Hale |
-Born in British west indies -Self made man -Inspired by Thomas Hobbes -Wrote 3 reports to congress -Founded Federalist party | Alexander Hamilton |
- | James Madison |
- | John Jay |
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