Place & Heroes
The capture of this fort was the first offensive victory for American forces in the Revolutionary War. It secured the strategic passageway north to Canada and netted the patriots an important cache of artillery.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
This was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston who strongly apposed the taxes imposed by the Townshend Acts. In response, they disguised themselves as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
They were American colonists who supported the British side during the American Revolution.
Who were the Tories?
This was an Act of the Parliament if Great Britain which granted the East India Company a monopoly on the shipment and sale of English tea in America.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
This council or assembly promoted manufacturing in the Thirteen Colonies and advised colonists not to buy goods imported from Britain. Its goal throughout the Thirteen Colonies was to inform voters of the common threat they faced from their mother country – Britain.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
Born in a place that is located closer to you than anywhere mentioned in the textbook so far, this charming person is currently in charge of an exciting task of lecturing US history to the contestants participating in this game.
Who is Mr. Daniel Ahn?
This is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
What is Common Sense?
They were a mob of settlers that murdered 20 unarmed innocent Indians, whom they suspected of connivance with other Native Americans who had been pillaging and scalping.
Who were Paxton Boys?
These were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Coercive Acts?
This was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution in reaction to the Intolerable Acts.
What was the First Continental Congress?
A founding framer and gifted political orator, he was one of the bright lights of the United States' revolutionary generation. He is probably best known for his famous declaration, "give me this or give me the ultimate fate," made during a speech before the Virginia Convention in 1775.
Who is Patrick Henry?
This was the last attempt that appealed directly to King George Ⅲ and expressed hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain to prevent formal war from being declared.
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
These are the men who rebelled against the control and oppression of Britain. They felt that the recent British laws enacted on American Colonies were unfair and violated their rights. Some of the main grievances of the colonists were taxation without consent, quartering soldiers in citizens’ homes, and denying colonists the right to a trial. Many of them lived in the New England Colonies, and were mostly from the middle and lower class. Most lived in rural areas and labored as fishermen and farmers. They wanted to be free from the Crown and were willing to resort to violence if necessary. Well known figures among this group included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Ethan Allen.
Who were the Patriots?
This Act was intended to appease French Canadians and to gain their loyalty. First and foremost, the Act allowed them to freely practice Roman Catholicism, which enraged many American Protestants who had fled Catholic persecution in Europe.
What is the Quebec Act?
A Continental Army Colonel whose men transported heavy cannons that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga 300 miles to the Continental Army camps outside Boston in fifty-six days with the help of oxen and ice sledges and arrived outside Boston on January 25, 1776.
Who is Henry Knox?
He was an American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83)
Who is George Washington?
This was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause.[9] The battles were fought on April 19, 1775.
What were the battles of Lexington and Concord?
They were members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a short notice, hence the name.
Who were the Minutemen?
This was the second of the four punitive measures enacted in Intolerable Acts in 1774. This act abrogated the colony's charter of 1691, reducing it to the level of a crown colony, replacing the elective local council with an appointed one, such as Gen. Thomas Gage.
What is the Massachusetts Government Act?
In May 1775, just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, this assembly established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. The king refused to hear the petition and declared the American colonies in revolt.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
An American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
This was the first major battle of the American Revolution, fought in Charlestown (now part of Boston) during the Siege of Boston. Although the British eventually won the battle, it was a Pyrrhic victory that lent considerable encouragement to the revolutionary cause. The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This term refers to the approximately 30,000 German troops hired by the British to help fight during the American Revolution. They were principally drawn from the German state of Hesse-Cassel, although soldiers from other German states also saw action in America.
Who were Hessians?
This was the fourth and final of the main Coercive Acts. It was given royal assent on June 2, 1774. The only act of the four to apply to all of the colonies, it allowed high-ranking military officials to demand better accommodations for troops and to refuse inconvenient locations for quarters.
What was the the Quartering Act?
A document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?