People of the American Revolution

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Across
  1. 5. Slave then spy for the Continental Army (not middle name)
  2. 11. Wrote the pamphlet Common Sense
  3. 12. Slave who wrote poems and plays supporting American independence
  4. 13. someone who wants to say under British rule
  5. 14. Patriot who made a daring ride to warn colonists of British arrival
  6. 15. Give Me liberty or give me death
Down
  1. 1. father of the Constitution
  2. 2. Helped with Treaty of Paris
  3. 3. British general who surrendered at Yorktown
  4. 4. French nobleman who served in the Continental Army and helped win at Yorktown
  5. 6. Commander of the Continental Army
  6. 7. Major author of the Declaration of Independence
  7. 8. British King during the Revolutionary Era
  8. 9. Prominent member of the Continental Congress; helped gain French support
  9. 10. Fugitive enslaved African American who was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre
  10. 12. someone who is fighting for independence