Georgia Studies Revolutionary War unit - people to know

1. Very Important People of the Revolutionary War Georgia Studies

2. Liberty Boys - Met in local taverns like Peter Tondee’s in Savannah to plan protests against the British Sons of Liberty –a political group made up of American Patriots who met together to try to change the British government's treatment of the Colonies after the French and Indian War. http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/story/liberty_boys

3. Georgia Chooses Sides

5. Nancy Hart

6. Nancy Hart Patriot Nancy Hart glared at the five-armed Loyalists who burst into her Georgia cabin. Tradition says that the men had shot her last turkey and ordered her to cook it for them. Raids like this were common in the South, where feuding neighbors used the war as an excuse to fight each other. Both Patriots and Loyalists took part in the raids. Many women and children had moved out of Georgia, but the six-foot-tall, freckled Hart chose to stay and fight. She could shoot a gun as accurately as any man. As she prepared the food, Hart planned her attack. When dinner was ready, the men sat down to eat. Seizing one of their muskets, Hart quickly shot and killed one man and wounded another. She kept the gun aimed on the others as her daughter ran for help. A group of nearby Patriots arrived and hanged the Loyalists.

7. Signed the Declaration of Independence Political ally of General Lachlan McIntosh Foe of Button Gwinnett Walton and Gwinnett battled to run Georgia He was kicked out of office and charged with crimes He was censured for his role in a duel between McIntosh and Gwinnett in which Gwinnett died. George Walton

8. Button Gwinnett He was one of 3 Georgia delegates to the Second Continental Congress who signed the Declaration of Independence. Gwinnett County is named after him. He died in a duel against Lachlan McIntosh.

9. Lyman Hall Physician, clergyman, and statesman Signed the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia 16th governor of Georgia Hall county is named after him.

10. American politician and Founding Father of the U.S. Represented Georgia at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787; supported the constitution. He was a founding trustee of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1785. William Few

11. Abraham Baldwin Representative in the Continental Congress for Georgia Signed the Constitution Served in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Developed the plan for the founding of UGA – the nation’sfirst state-chartered school!