Team 4
Key People
• He was an American bookseller from Boston,
who at 24 became the chief artillery officer of the
continental Army and later a close adviser of
George Washington during the American
Revolution. He was instrumental in formingthe
Society of Cincinnati. He also was a staunch
backer of the Constitutional Convention.
Henry Knox
• They were British North America colonists
who remained loyal subjects of the British
crown during the American Revolution.
They were also called Tories, King’s men
or Royalists.
Loyalist (Tories)
• Describes the colonists of the
British 13 United Colonies who
rebelled against British control
during the American Revolution.
Patriots (Whigs)
• They were German mercenaries who
fought with the British forces in North
America during the Revolutionary
War. The German mercenaries
represented about 1/3 of all British
forces in America.
Hessians
• He served as a major-general in the
Continental Army under George
Washington. He also was a leader of
the Garde hationale during the French
Revolution.
Marquis de LaFayette
• The British surrender at Saratoga was a
great turning point in the American
Revolution and John Burgoyne’s failure to
defeat Horatio Gate’s forces is to thank.
His surrender brought France into the
American Revolution.
General John Burgoyne
• He was very successful, both in the French
and Indian war and in the Revolutionary
War. He is most noted for being in regular
competition with General George
Washington and hatching a plan to have
him removed as commander-in-chief of the
Continental Army.
General Horatio Gates
• He was a Prussian-born military officer
who served as inspector general and major
general of the Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary war. He wrote the
Revolutionary War Drill Manual and
served as General George Washington’s
chief of staff in the final years of the war.
Frederick von Steuben
• He was a soldier from Virginia and the
highest ranking American military
officer on the northwestern frontier
during the American Revolutionary
War. Clark is often hailed as the
“Conqueror of the old Northwest.”
George Rogers Clark
• He fought for the British in the last
French and Indian War. He led four of
the six Iroquois nations on the British
side in the American Revolution. He
also was a Christian missionary.
Joseph Brant
• He is most famous for his exploration and
settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. He founded the village of
Boonesborought, Kentucky. Before the end of the
18th Century more than 200,000 European people
migrated to Kentucky/ Virginia by following the
route marked by Boone.
Daniel Boone
• Between 1775 and 1776 the Second Continental Congress
reversed itself on the question of independence because
they realized that they were no longer a part of the British
Empire.
• Why did the Second Continental Congress reverse itself
on the question of Independence between 1775 and 1776?
Focus Question