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The leader of the Continental Army (colonies)
Who is George Washington?
This battle ended the Revolution
What is the Battle of Yorktown
When was the Declaration of Independence written?
What is July 4, 1774
What were the colonists upset about paying?
What is taxes?
Who is Paul Revere
Which war was between the French and British that caused high taxes for the colonies?
What is the French and Indian War
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
What is the colonists made a new plan for government called the Constitution.
This was a tax on every printed piece of paper used by the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
The leader of the British government.
King George III
Which battle had the strategy to split the colonies' army in half using the Hudson River?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Group of colonist dressed as Native Americans, then boarded ships, broke open tea crates and pushed all the tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Why were the colonists upset about paying high taxes?
Name two important people from the revolution.
Who is Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, etc.
The beginning of the Revolutionary War.
What is April 19, 1775 or the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Name four of the original 13 colonies.
What is the Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
Name two things that led to the American Revolution
What are high taxes, the Boston Tea Party, the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre, etc.
Name the British general who tried to split the colonies in half during the Battle of Saratoga
General Burgoyne
The battle with the phrase, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
What is The Battle of Bunker Hill?
What is the name of the first government made until the Constitution passed in 1789?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Mandated that all colonist had to buy all their tea from England.
What is the Tea Act?