Chapter 3 section 4

1.Thomas Paine- The radical propagandist and voice of the common man, Thomas Paine, was born in Thetford in Norfolk on January 29, 1737.He contributed articles to the Pennsylvania Magazine on a wide range of topics. Thus on January 10, 1776, he published a short pamphlet, Common Sense, which immediately established his reputation as a revolutionary propagandist.

2.Thomas Jefferson- He had served

as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington, as vice-president in the administration of John Adams, and as president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

3.Abigail Adams- Abigail Adams, b. Weymouth, Mass., Nov. 11, 1744, d. Oct. 28, 1818,

was the wife of John ADAMS, the second president of the United States,

and the mother of John Quincy ADAMS, sixth president.

4.Loyalists- About 16% of the total American population were colonists who did not want to break away from Britain. That meant that 500,000 colonists wished to remain loyal to the British crown. They were mostly farmers. They were called British Empire Loyalists because of their loyalty as British subjects.

5.Salem Poor

6.Peter Salem- Peter Salem and two other blacks Cuff Whitemore and Salem Poor were honored for

bravery. Salem became one of the 5,000 blacks to join the whites in Bunker Hill. Peter

Salem had already fought at Lexington. Peter Salem got awarded for fighting in the

Revolutionary War. http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/rbs/salem.html

7.Thayendanegea-The Mohawk Indian chief also known as Joseph Brant

served as a spokesman for his people, a Christian

missionary of the Anglican church, and a British military

officer during the U.S. War of Independence. He is

remembered for his efforts in unifying upper New York

Indian tribes... Thayendanegea fought on the English side

during the American Revolution. At war's end, Brant

chose to remain under the Crown and requested land in

Canada for his people.

8.Margaret Corbin- Margaret Cochran Corbin fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., orphaned at the age of five and was

raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John Corbin. John joined the Continental Army when the American Revolution started four years later and Margaret accompanied her husband. Wives of the soldiers often cooked for the men, washed their laundry and nursed wounded soldiers. They also watched the men do their drills and, no doubt, learned those drills, too.

9.Molly Pitcher- An Artillery wife, Mary Hays McCauly (better known as Molly Pitcher)

shared the rigors of Valley Forge with her husband, William Hays. Her actions

during the battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778 became legendary. That day

at Monmouth was as hot as Valley Forge was cold. Someone had to cool the

hot guns and bathe parched throats with water.

10.Deborah Sampson Gannett- (1760-1827) disguised herself as

a man to fight in the Revolutionary War in the 4th

Massachusetts Regiment under the name of Robert

Shurtleff. She fought for a year, and was wounded

twice. When she was hospitalized for a serious illness

her secret was discovered. She collected veterans'

benefits after her discharge and her husband was

given a survivor's pension after her death.