HISTORICAL FIGURES
This formerly enslaved man who became one of the first colonists killed during the Boston Massacre and also what was his job ?
After her husband collapsed during the Battle of Monmouth, this woman reportedly took his place at the cannon, earning a legendary nickname connected to carrying water to troops.
CRISPUS ATTUCKS- SAILOR
MOLLY PITCHER
These taxes placed duties on imported goods like glass, paper, tea, and paint.
Patriots = wanted independence from Great Britain. They would protest the British and get taxed.
Loyalists = stayed loyal to Britain. They were usually government officials in charge of others, merchants (business owners)
This war between Britain and France was fought partly over land in the Ohio River Valley and helped place Britain in debt.
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
This organization spread information between colonies and helped unite resistance against Britain before the Revolution.
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE
This Massachusetts patriot defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre but later became a major Revolutionary leader.
This act was especially offensive to colonists because it directly taxed them without colonial consent.
THE STAMP ACT= "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"
This form of protest hurt British merchants by refusing to purchase imported products.
BOYCOTT
George Washington surrendered at this poorly defended fort during the French and Indian War.
FORT NECESSITY
This colonial meeting was held in 1774 to discuss how to respond to British punishment laws.
This Enlightenment thinker believed people had natural rights including life, liberty, and property and his ideas were also depicted and inspired THE DELCARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
This British law punished Massachusetts by limiting town meetings and placing more control of the colony under the royal governor after the Boston Tea Party.
MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNMENT ACT
This lawmaking body in Great Britain passed taxes and acts such as the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts that angered many colonists.
PARLIAMENT
This event was used heavily as Patriot propaganda even though the confrontation began with colonists taunting British soldiers.
Boycotts and organized resistance to British imports were strategies strongly promoted by this Patriot organization.
SONS OF LIBERTY
This silversmith’s engraving helped spread anti-British feelings after the Boston Massacre.
PAUL REVERE-
This British response to the Boston Tea Party closed an important colonial harbor and hurt merchants throughout New England.
BOSTON PORT ACT
Passed after the French and Indian War, this British proclamation banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains in order to avoid conflicts with Native Americans.
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
This phrase refers to the opening battle of the Revolution that inspired future independence movements worldwide. Name the location of this specific event where this phrase came from
"THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD"- BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
This group of delegates eventually approved the Declaration of Independence and managed the war effort.
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Name all FOUR Revolutionary riders who helped warn colonial forces about British invasion or entrapment
1. PAUL REVERE
2. WILLIAM DAWES
3. SAMEUL PRESCOTT
4. SYBIL LUDINGTON
This British response to colonial resistance actually pushed many colonists closer to supporting independence instead of loyalty.
THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
This made the Boston Massacre appear more organized and brutal than it may actually have been.
PAUL REVERES ENGRAVING
This battle effectively ended major fighting after British General Cornwallis surrendered.
YORKTOWN
These five men, later known as the ____________ were chosen by the Second Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence.
COMMITTEE OF FIVE
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston