Chater 5 Important Names

Shays' Rebellion - uprising in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787 caused by excessive land taxation.

General Benjamin Lincoln - American Revolutionary War Leader, Second in Command.

Henry Knox - joined the American colonial army in 1775 and participated in nearly every important military.

James Madison - the fourth President of the United States (1809-1817).

Alexander Hamilton - Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty.

Edmund Randolph - was an American attorney, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State.

William Paterson - Scottish trader, a founder of the Bank of England.

John Hancock - Boston businessman who nonetheless favored American independence from Great Britain. Hancock's flamboyant signature on the Declaration of Independence made him an American legend.

Patrick Henry - the American orator who urged colonists to take up arms against the British.

Richard Henry - American writer and lawyer.

George Clinton - missed the signing of the Declaration of Independence, due to being out leading a militia fighting the British.

Amos Singletary - was a member of Massachusetts Provincial Congress and voted on ratification of the Constitution.

Robert Morris - was a man of wealth and integrity in Philadelphia during the revolutionary period.

John Jay - John Jay was one of the heavy-hitters in the early days of the United States.

Samuel Adams - was an American Patriot and organizer of the Boston Tea Party.

George Washington - the father of his country.

William Paterson - American statesman, signed US Constitution .

John Adams - A colonist agitator against the Stamp Act of 1765.

Robert Madison - was apart of the Declaration of Independence.