Colonial Dissatisfaction
Declaration of Independence
Why the Americans Won
People
Events
100
The Colonists could not move west past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
These are rights you are born with and cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
100
The colonists had a strong leader in this man.
Who is George Washington?
100
This man was the King of England during the American Revolution?
Who is King George III?
100
This is when British soldiers shot at colonists after the colonists taunted them.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The colonists were angry because the British did not represent them in their law making body.
What is no representation in Parliament?
200
These are the three unalienable rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
200
This country sent troops to help the Americans win the war.
What is France?
200
This man championed independence in the colonies.
Who is John Adams?
200
This is when colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
These people were in charge of keeping British law in the colonies.
What are colonial governors?
300
People establish this to protect their rights.
What is government?
300
Colonists defenced their own these.
What is land, principles, and freedom?
300
This man was the leader of the British army during the American Revolution.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
300
This was the first armed conflict of the American Revolution?
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
400
To pay for the French and Indian War the British imposed these.
What are taxes?
400
This is where government gets its power from.
What is the people?
400
Colonists knew this better than the British.
What is the land?
400
This man was leader of the Continental army during the American Revolution,
Who is George Washington?
400
This was an American victory which resulted in the turning point in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
500
These are the Colonial law making bodies that England strictly controlled.
What are legislatures?
500
People have a right and a duty to change a government that violates these.
What is their rights?
500
George Washington knew how to beat the British because of his experince of fighting for the British during this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
He was the patriot who warned colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
This was the final battle of the American Revolution, where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
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