USI.6C: Revolution-People

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Championed the cause of independence

Commander of the Continental Army

Wrote the pamphlet COMMON SENSE, promoting American independence

Major author of the Declaration of Independence

Enslaved African American who wrote poems and plays supporting American independence and who eventually gained her freedom

Patriot who make a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival

Prominent member of the Continental Congress; helped frame the Declaration of Independence; helped gain French support for American independence

British King during the Revolutionary era