1. Vocabulary
1.1. revolutionary
1.1.1. noun - a person who has made great changes to the way that a country works (laws, government)
1.1.2. adjective - something that makes a great change
1.1.3. Revolutionary War
1.1.3.1. the war between England and the colonies of North America
1.1.3.2. led to the United States of America becoming a country
1.1.3.3. began because the colonists did not being charged money (taxes) without having a say or being able to vote for what they wanted the money to be spent on
1.1.4. founding father
1.1.4.1. a person who was involved in making laws and decisions that first started the United States of America
1.2. changemaker
1.3. scholar
1.4. inventor
1.5. explorer
1.6. adventurer
1.7. reformer
1.8. champion
2. Revolutionaries
2.1. John Adams
2.1.1. founding father
2.1.2. helped write the Declaration of Independence
2.2. Benjamin Franklin
2.2.1. founding father
2.2.2. helped write the Declaration of Independence
2.2.3. was also an inventor
2.3. Alexander Hamilton
2.3.1. founding father
2.3.2. fought in the Revolutionary War
2.3.3. helped create the way U.S. banks operate
2.4. Patrick Henry
2.4.1. lawyer in Virginia
2.4.2. argued for voting rights for colonists
2.4.2.1. felt it was wrong for colonists to not have a say in how their money was spent by England
2.5. Thomas Jefferson
2.5.1. founding father
2.5.2. helped write the Declaration of Independence
2.5.3. wrote about why the colonies should become their own country
2.5.4. bought the "Lousiana Purchase" from France - large amount of land that makes up the midwest
2.6. James Madison
2.6.1. founding father
2.6.2. helped shape how the U.S. government runs
2.6.3. put a lot of work and time into writing the Constitution
2.7. Paul Revere
2.7.1. delivered letters across the colonies
2.7.2. warned people that the British were coming to arrest them
2.8. George Washington
2.8.1. 1st President of the United States
2.8.2. made many of the first decisions that helped create the government and laws we have now
2.8.3. was a army general during the Revolutionary War