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 * __peter salem__**- African who fought with the Minutemen at Concord and at the battle of Bunker Hill.
 * Friedrich Von Steuben** German soldier who helped train Patriot troops in the revolutionary war.
 * Phillis Wheatley** American poet who wrote poems that praised the revolution.
 * George Washington** 1st U.S.president, leader of the Continental army during the Revolutionary war,and president of the Constitutional convention


 * Thomes Jefferson** 3rd U.S. president and the main writer of the Declaration of independence.
 * Thomes Paine**Anothor of a widely read pamphlet called common sense ,in which he attached King George 3 and called for a revolution to make the colonies independence.
 * Thaddeus Kosciuszko** Polish officer who helped the patriots in the Revolutionary war.He later returned to poland and led a revolution there.
 * Mary Slocumb** North Carolina colonist who fought in the Revolutionary War.
 * The** **Second Continental Congress** Some important colonist met in a meeting called the second Continental congress.
 * Quakers** are against all wars,because they believe that violence for any reasin is wrong.
 * Mercenaries** A hired soldier.
 * Olive Branch Petition** A letter called the olive Branch Petition from the Second Continental Congress to King George the III.
 * Battle of Yorktown** A battle in 1781,in Yorktown between British General Charles Cornwallis and the French and Continentals.
 * Treaty of Paris** An agreement between British and Americans to stop the war.
 * battle of saratoga** on Oct.1777,the British lost to Continental soldiers led by General Horatio gates in Saratoga New York.