Revolutionary People Crossword

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  1. 2. The first elected governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  2. 4. founding father, served as the second president of America
  3. 6. Stamp Act tax distributor, best known for being hanged in effigy from Boston's Liberty Tree
  4. 8. Inventor of the lightning rod and the bifocals
  5. 9. Elected as the fourth president of America in 1808
  6. 10. British Agent during Revolutionary War, hanged for involvement in a plot to destroy the American economy by putting counterfeit money into circulation
  7. 12. was a loyalist officer and author of the anti-CommonSense pamphlet "Plain Truth" in 1776
  8. 14. led Iroqouis soldiers alongside St Leger to attempt to defeat a small American force at Fort Stanwix in the summer of 1777
  9. 16. Massachussets attorney general from 1776-1777
  10. 17. African-American sailor who was shot and killed in the Boston Massacre
  11. 18. proposed the resolution that led to the idea of the Declaration of Independence
  12. 19. former lieutenant Governor of Massachussetts whos house was destroyed and looted due to protests against the Stamp Act in August 1765
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  1. 1. originally a patriot who turned loyalist and worked for the King as a spy due to the way he felt has wasn't being rewarded enough for his actions in America
  2. 3. soldier in the American Revolution, hung as a British spy in 1782
  3. 5. Founding father of the USA, can be found on the ten dollar bill
  4. 7. The last colonial governor of New Jersey, Benjamin Franklins son
  5. 11. Mowhawk leader in British New York, sister of Joseph Brant
  6. 13. famous for being tarred and feathered by an angry mob of patriots also had to consume a large amount of tea and cuse the King of England
  7. 15. appointed by the 2nd Continental Congress as the commanding general of the Continental Army
  8. 19. wrote the famous line "certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence