Groups of People
Important Individuals
Important Events
Important Ideas
Miscellaneous
100
Colonial militia members ready to fight at a minute's notice.
What is Minutemen
100
Rode on a horse through Concord to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere
100
The purpose of this was to set up the Continental Army and send the Olive Branch Petition.
What is the Second Continental Congress
100
This was a meeting of Colonial leaders worried about their relationship with England.
What is the First Continental Congress.
100
The greatest 3rd Hour U.S. History teacher you currently have this semester.
Who is Mr. Dudek
200
Colonists who chose to fight for independence from England.
What is Patriots
200
General of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington
200
The last major battle in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown
200
This document declared the Colonies' freedom from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence
200
She was only 16 when she rode twice as far as Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Sybill Ludington
300
Colonists who sided with England in the American Revolution.
What is Loyalists
300
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
300
The Patriots lost, but they proved they could take on the Redcoats.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
300
This was important because it argued that people, not kings and queens, should make laws.
What is Common Sense
300
These 2 countries helped the Colonists defeat England in the American Revolution.
Who are France and Spain
400
British soldiers who fought against the colonists.
What is Redcoats
400
Wrote "Common Sense," which argued people should rule themselves.
Who is Thomas Paine
400
Patriots surprised the British at night and took over 900 prisoners.
What is the Battle of Trenton
400
These 2 sides emerged in response to the Declaration of Independence.
What are Loyalists and Patriots
400
The Declaration of Independence says this about all men.
What is they are created equal
500
Hired foreign soldiers
What is Mercenaries
500
French Commander who helped the Patriots at the Battle of Yorktown.
Who is Comte de Rochambeau
500
The Patriots greatest victory, and the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga
500
What 2 reasons led the British to believe they'd find support in the southern colonies?
What are more loyalists and the plan to free slaves
500
Who first fired the "shot heard round the world" in Lexington, sparking the start of the American Revolution.
Who is....nobody knows for certain.
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