Deborah Sampson

Deborah Sampson's family was very poor. She was the oldest of six children. Her father left his family and went to sea on a ship. When her mother could no longer feed her family, she sent them to live with friends and relatives.

Eventually, at the age of 8 to 10 years old, she became an indentured servant. She worked on a farm and worked very hard. She could hunt, ride a horse, and even do carpenter work. She loved to learn and would get the boys in the family to teach her the lessons they were learning in school.

During the Revolutionary War she wanted to help, but they did not allow girls to join the army. She decided she could join the army if she pretended to be a man. She practiced walking and talking like a man. She was ready. She became an enlisted "man" using the name Robert Shurtleff. After she left the army, she married a farmer named Benjamin Gannett and they had three children. She taught at a school and also would give talks or lectures about her experiences in the war. Paul Revere wrote a letter to Congress asking for her to be given a pension. She began receiving four dollars a month.
She died at the age of sixty-six.

George Rogers Clark

 George Rogers Clark born in November 19, 1752 and died in February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky Militia throughout a big part of the war. Clark is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia in 1778 and Vincennes  in 1779, which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest territory. Because the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Clark has often been hailed as the "Conqueror of the Old Northwest."

Clark's military achievements all came before his 30th birthday. he was accused of being drunk on duty. Despite his demand for a formal investigation into the accusations, he was disgraced and forced to resign. He left Kentucky to live on the Indiana frontier. Clark spent the final decades of his life living in increasing poverty and obscurity. After suffering a stroke and losing his leg, Clark was aided in his final years by family members, including his younger brother William, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Clark died of a stroke on February 13, 1818.

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural rights, including a right of revolution. Having served its original purpose in announcing independence, the text of the Declaration was initially ignored after the American Revolution.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was an orator and politician who led the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s.

 A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779, Henry was born in Studley, Hanover County, Virginia on May 29, 1736.  His father was John Henry, an immigrant from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who had attended King's College, Aberdeen before immigrating to the Colony of Virginia in the 1720s. Settling in Hanover County, about 1732 John Henry married Sarah Winston Syme, a wealthy widow from a prominent Hanover County family of English ancestry. Patrick Henry was once thought to have been of humble origins, but he was actually born into the middle rank of the Virginiagentry.

Abigail Adams

Wife of the second President of the United States, Abigail Adams is an example of one kind of life lived by women in colonial, While she's perhaps best known simply as an early First Lady and mother of another President, and perhaps known for the stand she took for women's rights in letters to her husband.

Educated at home, Abigail Adams learned quickly and read widely. Her marriage to John Adams was warm and loving and also intellectually lively, to judge from their letters.

They had four children before John became involved in the Continental Congress. During his long absences, Abigail managed the family and the farm and corresponded not only with her husband but with many family members and friends. During the war, she also served as the primary educator of the children, including the future sixth U.S. president, John Quincy Adams.
When John served in Europe as a diplomatic representative of the new nation, Abigail Adams joined him.

John Adams served as Vice President of the United States from 1789-1797 and then as President 1797-1801. Abigail spent some of her time at home, managing the family financial things, and part of her time in the federal capital, in Philadelphia most of those years and, very briefly, in the new White House in Washington, D.C. .
After John retired from public life at the end of his presidency, the couple lived quietly in Massachusetts.

It is mostly through her letters that has been known much about the life and personality of this intelligent and perceptive woman of colonial America and the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary period.
Abigail Adams died in 1818, seven years before her son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth president of the U.S.

The Daughters of Liberty

The Daughters of Liberty were a group that proved women's that involved in politics could be beneficial for the country. As the support to boycott British goods went up, "Daughters of Liberty" joined the support to oppose British importation. The Daughters of Liberty used their skills to weave yarn and wool into fabric named "homespun". They were known as patriotic heroines for their success, which made America less dependent on British Textiles. while Patriots supported the non importation movements of 1765, and 1769, the daughters of liberty continued to support American resistance. In many small towns and villages women spun wool into homemade cloth. In 1774, the patriot women helped influence a decision made by Continental Congress to boycott all British goods. The decision to boycott British goods was due in a very large part to the patriot women who were very determined to reach demands for homemade clothing. Decisions made to boycott of British goods would not have been possible if the women had not created a substitute for the imported material. The "Daughters of Liberty" were working from morning to night to prove their commitment to "the cause of liberty and industry". The daughters of liberty were one of the many groups of women who fought for woman's equality and supported the soldiers during the American Revolution.

The Continental Congress

This Congress was a convention of delegates that were called from the thirteen colonies that became the governal body from the United States of America during the American Revolution, they met in a time from 1774 through 1789 in three ocations.
They first convention took place in Philadelphia, in th Carpenters Hall from September 5 to October 26 and consisted of 56 delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies. One of the most notable delegates at this convention were George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Adams and its cousin Samuel Adams.
At the 2nd time they met again at Philadelphia a year later on May 5, 1775. in this reunion Peyton Randolph was elected as President of the Assembly.
This newly formed nation had  now to create a new goverment to replace the old fashioned British Parliament that they were trying to overthrown.