THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
This British law of 1765 required newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials to carry a paid government stamp.
What was the Stamp Act?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that monarchy was unnatural and that the colonies should completely separate from Britain.
What was Common Sense?
This future First Lady famously urged her husband John Adams to “remember the ladies” while the new government was being created.
Who was Abigail Adams?
The Second Continental Congress appointed this man commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
This American diplomat became a celebrity at the French court and helped secure French support for the Revolution.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This colonial protest group organized boycotts and resistance against British taxes, especially the Stamp Act.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This Virginian wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This formerly enslaved Black poet wrote a celebrated 1775 poem addressed to George Washington.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 before surprising Hessian troops at this battle.
What was the Battle of Trenton?
This young French aristocrat crossed the Atlantic to support the Revolution and became a close ally of Washington.
Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
This deadly 1770 confrontation became powerful Patriot propaganda after British soldiers killed five colonists.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This Enlightenment concept held that people possess rights simply by being human rather than because a government grants them.
What are natural rights?
This 1775 British proclamation promised freedom to enslaved people owned by Patriot rebels if they escaped and joined British forces.
What was Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation?
This winter encampment of 1777–1778 became famous for hardship, disease, survival, and the increasing professionalization of Washington’s army.
What was Valley Forge?
This French general commanded French ground forces in America and cooperated with Washington during the final campaign.
Who was the Comte de Rochambeau?
At this 1773 protest, colonists dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston formed the Committee of Five to draft this document.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
This Patriot woman disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army for more than a year before her identity was discovered.
Who was Deborah Sampson?
This Prussian officer drilled Washington’s soldiers at Valley Forge and helped transform the Continental Army into a more disciplined fighting force.
Who was Baron von Steuben?
At this 1781 battle, American and French forces trapped General Cornwallis’s army while the French navy blocked his escape by sea, forcing the British surrender that effectively ended major fighting in the Revolution.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
British troops marching to seize colonial weapons at this Massachusetts town encountered militia on April 19, 1775, helping produce the “shot heard ’round the world.”
What was Concord?
This president of the Second Continental Congress became famous for placing an enormous signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Hancock?
Formerly enslaved men who escaped to Lord Dunmore formed this British military unit in Virginia during the early Revolution.
What was the Ethiopian Regiment?
This 1777 Patriot victory convinced France that the American rebellion could succeed and helped bring France formally into the war.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1783 treaty formally ended the American Revolution, recognized the independence of the United States, and established its territory westward to the Mississippi River.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1783?