Importantes Characters
What was Samuel Adams' role in the American Revolution?
Samuel Adams was a Founding Father of the United States and a political theorist who protested British taxation without representation, uniting the American colonies in the fight for independence during the Revolutionary War.
Colonists held the Boston tea party to protest the:
Boston Massacre
What were England's reasons for control over the American colonies?
England desired to remain a world power. They imposed taxes, such as the stamp act to raise necessary revenue to pay the cost of the French and Indian war
What were the first 2 battles of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord
What is the meaning of Liberty
Freedom
Who was Thomas Jefferson in the American Revolution?
During the American Revolutionary War Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia. He later served as U.S. minister to France and U.S. secretary of state, and was vice president under John Adams.
What was the stamp act?
The new tax required all legal documents including commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, marriage licenses, diplomas, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax used by the British government to collect revenues from the colonies.
What were some of England’s reasons for taxation of the American colonies?
To help finance the French and Indian war
To help with the main thing with English troops
True or false:
There were 100 major battles in the American revolution.
False there were over 230 mayor battles
Who were Loyalist?
Colonist who supported Great Britain in the American Revolution.
What was John Adams' role in the American Revolution?
John Adams was a leader of the American Revolution and served as the second U.S. president. Adams served as a diplomat in Europe and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris which officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
What are three major reasons the Americans won the Revolutionary War?
Lack of Loyalist and Native American Support.
Logistics.
British Political Division.
What were some sources of colonial dissatisfaction:
colonies had no representation in parliament
Some colonies resented the power of colonial governors.
England wanted strict control over colonial legislators
Colonies opposed taxes
True or false:
Did the Rhode Island battle happen in august 1778?
TRUE
Who were Patriots?
American colonist who supported the fight for independence.
Who was Benjamin Franklin in the American Revolution?
Benjamin Franklin in the American Revolution, served in the Second Continental Congress and helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
What was the Boston blockade?
The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army, which was garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts Bay.
As England expanded control over the American colonies what was the reaction of many colonies?
many colonies became dissatisfied and rebellious.
The turning point of the war, when the Americans started to take the lead.
the Battle of Saratoga
What was Militia?
Militia was a group of volunteers who fought in times of emergency during the colonial period and the Revolutionary War
Who was George Washington in the American Revolution?
George Washington was commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and served two terms as the first U.S. president, from 1789 to 1797.
What was the Boston tea party?
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
What ideas of the government were expressed in the Declaration of Independence?
people established a government to protect those rights.
People have a right and a duty to change a government that violates their rights.
The final battle of the War in which England surrenders.
the Battle of Yorktown 1781.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
The official document by the Second Continental Congress explaining why the colonies were breaking away from England.