Causes of the war
Event that caused Parliament ot 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 of Breed's Hill
Bunker Hill
Town where the Redcoats destroyed military supplies
Concord
Samuel Adams' nickname
Father of the American Revolution
Author of the pamphlet, "Common Sense."
Thomas Paine
Law that first prompted a colonial boycott and cries of "no taxation without representation"
Stamp Act
Captured the British forts at Kaskaskia and Vincennes.
George Rogers Clark
Washington defeated Cornwallis with the help of the French fleet
Yorktown
Where tensions between the colonists and British reached a peak during the years before the Revolutionary War
Boston
Representative body that governed the United States during the Revolutionary War
Second Continental Congress
Governor of Massachusetts following the Intolerable Acts and commander of the British Troops at the time of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
General Thomas Gage
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 join the war.
Saratoga
Where the British stayed while the patriots camped at Valley Forge
Philadelphia
Nickname for Francis Marion, who led hit-and-run raids against the British in the Carolinas.
Swamp Fox
Indian Chief who tried to drive white settlers out of the Ohio region.
Chief Pontiac
Unfortunate event that took the lives of former slave Crispus Attucks and four others
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
He was quoted saying, "... give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
British Prime Minister who had Parliament enact laws that taxed lead, painter's colors, glass, paper, and tea.
Charles Townshend
Prime Minister who proposed the Proclamation of 1763, stricter enforcement of 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 that followed the warning of Paul Revere and William Dawes
Lexington (and then Concord)
City that Generals Burgoyne, Howe and Colonel St. Leger all failed to reach during a major British campaign.
Albany
Name of the ship that John Paul Jones captured after saying, "I have not yet begun to fight!"
Serapis
American commander who won the Battle of Saratoga, the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
Horatio Gates