Before the War
Citizens protest by dumping tea into the city harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The battle where the first shots of the revolution were fired. "The shot heard around the world."
Lexington
This country provided military leadership to America during the war.
Who is France?
What is 13?
The name of this era in history.
What is Revolutionary Era?
The war that preceded (came before) the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
He was elected as the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The name of the part-time military force made up of ordinary citizens.
What is the militia?
He was in France trying to get their support for the American colonists.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Document written at the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
An outspoken member of the Continental Congress and lawyer who defended the British in a trial.
Who is John Adams?
The three major Unalienable Rights
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Name of the treaty that ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The country the Native Americans supported in the war.
Who is Britain?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Colonists used this phrase to protest the fact that they did not have a voice in the government.
What is "No Taxation without Representation?"
Which river did Washington cross on Christmas night 1776?
What is the Delaware river?
One advantage America had over Britain in the war.
Mrs. Van Ness will judge.
Tax on printed materials including legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
A snowball fight gone wrong between citizens and British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Colonists who stayed loyal to the British crown during the Revolution.
What are Loyalists?
Now a prestigious university, this place was occupied by both colonial and British troops.
What is Princeton University?
A prominent group of Patriot women who supported the American Revolution through nonviolent protest and economic resistance.
What are the Daughters of Liberty?
Before the Revolution, Washington was a colonel in this country's military.
What is Great Britain?