important people of the american revolution
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 Samuel adams | a Boston patriot who stirred up angry protests against the British by writing and speaking. |
| Benjamin Franklin | a great American writer and inventor; signerof the Declaeation of Independence in 1776; delagate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; convinced France to help U.S. in the American Revolution. |
| King George III | the king of England. |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776;3rd president of the u.s.;an anti-federalist. |
| Marquis de Lafayette | a frenchman who volunteered in the Continental Army. |
| Declaration of independence | signed in July 4,1776 |
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