ABeka History 11 - Chapter 5 - People
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- Pontiac
- Ottawa chief who led a confederation of tribes in a bloody uprising against England.
- Patrick Henry
- American lawyer who addressed the House of Burgesses with a plea for the colonies to fight for their freedom.
- George III
- Became king of England in 1760; ruled during America's War for Independence
- James Otis
- Boston lawyer who published "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved"
- Samuel Adams
- led the protest against the Stamp Act in Massachusetts; organized the Sons of Liberty and helped form the first committee of Correspondence
- William Pitt the Elder
- one of Parliament's most respected members; rejected the idea of "virtual representation" for the colonies
- Edmund Burke
- Irish statesman who defended the colonies before Parliament
- Charles Townshend
- became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1767; responsible for the Townshend Acts, which included the infamous tea tax
- John Dickinson
- Pennsylvania lawyer who drafted the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress; wrote the pamphlet entitled "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies"
- General Thomas Gage
- replaced Hutchinson as royal governor of Massachusetts
- Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott
- rode through the night of April 18, 1775 to warn their countrymen of the British march on Lexington
- Lemuel Haynes
- black American patriot who fought with the Massachusetts minutemen at Lexington
- Ethan Allen
- formed a frontier militia known as the "Green Mountain Boys"; captured Fort Ticonderoga
- John Hancock
- elected president of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in May 1775
- George Washington
- appointed commander in chief of the colonial army
- George Grenville
- became prime minister of England in 1763; instituted a program of new taxes and stricter trade regulation for the colonies