Causes of the War
Event which caused Parliament to pass the harsh Intolerable Acts.
Boston Tea Party
He said, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
The redcoats suffered heavy casualties before driving the patriots off Breed’s Hill.
Bunker Hill
Town where the redcoats destroyed colonial military supplies at the beginning of the war.
Concord
Samuel Adams’ nickname.
"Father of the American Revolution"
First law to bring about a colonial boycott and cries of “no taxation without representation.”
Stamp Act
Captured the British forts at Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
George Rodgers Clark
Washington defeated Cornwallis with the help of the French fleet.
Yorktown
Where tensions were greatest between the colonists and British during the years prior to the Revolutionary War.
Boston
Representative body which governed the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Second Continental Congress
It said that no colonists could settle in the Ohio region.
Proclamation of 1763
Captured forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point with the help of his Green Mountain Boys.
Ethan Allen
Called “the turning point of the war,” because the American victory convinced France to sign the Treaty of Alliance.
Saratoga
Where the British stayed while the patriots camped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia
Nickname for Francis Marion, who led hit-and-run raids against the British in the Carolinas.
"Swamp Fox"
Tragic event which took the lives of former slave Crispus Attucks and four other patriots.
Boston Massacre
Helped organize the Sons of Liberty, Boston Tea Party, and Committees of Correspondence.
Samuel Adams
The Continental Army crossed the Delaware and surprised the Hessians.
Trenton
City occupied by British troops shortly after General Howe’s victory over Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
New York
Name of the ship which John Paul Jones captured after saying, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
Serapis
Prime minister who proposed the Proclamation of 1763, stricter enforcement of the Navigation Acts, and the Stamp Act.
George Grenville
General who planned the ill-fated British invasion of New York State in 1777.
John Burgoyne
Battle which followed a warning by Paul Revere and William Dawes.
Lexington
City that General Burgoyne, General Howe, and Colonel St. Leger all failed to reach during a major British campaign in New York.
Albany
Seven famous words spoken by Patrick Henry.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"