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This person was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the first tax that was a direct tax on the colonists meaning that every person had to pay it.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is the congress that would write the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
This is the first battle of the revolution where the "shot heard 'round the world" occurred.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This document declared the colonists independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This man was the commander of the army during the American Revolution and later would become the first US President.
Who is George Washington?
This event happened when British soldiers fired into a group of colonial protesters killing 5.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This congress consisted of delegates from 12 of the colonies, all except Georgia.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Another very early battle in the war, misappropriately named considering that most of the fighting actually occurred on Breed's Hill.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This book was written by Thomas Paine and explained simply why declaring independence was the right choice.
What is Common Sense?
This man was the attorney for the British soldiers who perpetrated the Boston Massacre and later becomes the second President of the US.
Who is John Adams?
This event angered the British government because a large amount of their profits in tea were thrown into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to the king as a last ditch effort to avoid war.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
This was the major turning point in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This document brought an end to the American Revolution (include the year).
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
This man started the organizations of the Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This act came about as almost a replacement of the Stamp Act after it was repealed.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This congress sent the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to the king but it was ignored.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This was the final battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This document was written by the Second Continental Congress and urged King George III to stop Parliament's taxation of the colonies.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This man led the volunteer army from France.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
Among other things this act shut down the port of Boston.
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
This is the first congress to be formed in the colonies which decided that Parliament could pass laws that affect the colonists but could not tax them.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
These two (yes, you have to say both) early wins for the Patriots kept the colonists in the war long enough to see the turning point.
What are the battles of Trenton and Princeton?
This document brought an end to the French and Indian War (include the year).
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?