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CHA3U – American History: Who’s Who & Key Events
Unit#2: American Revolution and Establishing a New Nation (1776-1850)
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Mini Bio (Description of Accomplishments/Significance)
George Washington (General)
Edward Braddock (General)
William Pitt (British Secretary of State)
Jeffrey Amherst (British General)
James Wolfe (British General)
Louis Montcalm (French General)
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Pontiac (Native chief)
George Grenville (British Minister of Finance)
John Locke (British Philosopher)
Thomas Hutchinson (Loyalist)
Charles Townshend (British Minister)
John Dickinson (Patriot)
John Hancock (Patriot)
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Samuel Adams (Patriot)
Crispus Attucks (Boston Massacre Victim)
King George III
General Thomas Gage (Governor of Boston)
John Pitcairn (British Major)
Paul Revere (Patriot)
John Parker (Minutemen Captain)
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Patrick Henry (Patriot – Virginia)
Artemas Ward (Patriot general)
John Adams (Patriot, 2nd President of the U.S.)
Ethan Allen (Patriot soldier)
General Israel Putnam (American General)
Sir William Howe (Commander-In-Chief of British Forces)
Thomas Paine (Philospher)
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Benedict Arnold
Richard Montgomery (American General)
Guy Carleton (Governor-General)
Thomas Jefferson (President/DofI writer)
John Burgoyne (British General)
Barry St.Leger (British Lieutenant-Colonel)
Molly Pitcher (Patriot)
Francis Marion “The Swamp Fox”
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George Cornwallis (British General)
John Jay (Patriot)
Benjamin Franklin (DofI writer)
Horatio Gates (American General)
Count Jean Rochambeau (French Militarist)
Marquis de Lafayette (French Militarist)
Fredrich von Steuben (Prussian Baron)
George Rogers Clark (American General)
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Nathanael Greene (American General)
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Key Event (Description/Significance)
The Navigation Acts
Enumerated Commodities
The Triangular Trade
The Seven Years War
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The Battle of Quebec
The Albany Plan
The Treaty of Paris
The Proclamation of 1763
The Sons of Liberty
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
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The Townshend Acts
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The Quebec Act of 1774
The Coercive Act
Committees of Correspondence
Patriots
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The First Continental Congress
Minutemen
Lexington and Concord
The Second Continental Congress
The Continental Army
Green Mountain Boys
Battle of Bunker Hill
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Hessians
Battle of Trenton/Princeton
Loyalists
Battle of Saratoga and Philadelphia
Valley Forge
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris, 1783
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Redcoats
Hit and Run Tactics/Guerilla Warfare
Privateers
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