The French and Indian War
This group of people were taxed to pay for the French and Indian War.
Who were the American colonists?
This act required a special tax stamp on newspapers and legal documents in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This secret group protested the Stamp Act and fought against British rule in the colonies.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This patriot made a famous midnight ride to warn colonists that British troops were coming.
Who was Paul Revere?
This battle was the last major battle of the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
These two groups fought for land in the French and Indian War.
Who were the British and the French?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers firing into a crowd of colonists, killing five.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This British king ruled Great Britain during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
This patriot is famous for declaring, “Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who was Patrick Henry?
This Founding Father was the main author of the Declaration of Independence and later became the third president.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This group won the French and Indian War?
Who was the British?
This protest happened after the Tea Act of 1773 and involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This leader served as commander in chief of the Continental Army and later became the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This patriot supported American independence and later became the second president of the United States.
Who was John Adams?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, included a list of all the wrongs the British government had done to the colonists.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
______ ruled the American colonists after the French and Indian War.
Who was Great Britain?
Colonists used this phrase to protest being taxed by Parliament (the British Government) when they had no representatives in the British government.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This colonial leader was an inventor and scientist who also helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This group of colonial women supported protests against British taxes by making their own goods instead of buying British products.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
According to the Declaration of Independence, people have these three rights: life, liberty, and ______.
What is the pursuit of happiness?
This war between Great Britain and France left Great Britain in debt and led to new taxes on the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
These battles in Massachusetts were the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This Continental Army officer turned against the Americans and joined the British Army.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
These groups of African American soldiers fought during the Revolution and were promised freedom for their service.
Who were the Black Regiments?
This treaty officially ended the American Revolution and recognized American independence.
What was the Treaty of Paris?