Pre - Revolution
Another name for the French and Indian War
Seven years War
Tax on coffee and molasses etc.
Sugar Act
Act that required housing British soldiers
Quartering Act
German mercenaries
Hessians
Place of the terrible winter of 1777
Valley Forge
Fertile region that was fought over in the French and Indian War , between England and France
Ohio River valley
One of the most hated acts. Taxed all paper products that required seals
Stamp Act
Event that occurred in response to Tea act in 1773
Boston Tea Party
Who wrote Common Sense ? The pamphlet that galvanized American ideas of independence
Thomas Paine
German Baron who trained the Continental army
Von Stuben
Name of general who dies trying to take Fort Duquesne; Washington has to take command
General Braddock
Prohibited colonists from moving beyond this line and settling west of the Appalachian mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Shot heard round the world occurred where?
Lexington and Concord
Successfully brought back cannons from Fort Ticonderoga over a 300 mile journey
Henry Knox
Continental general in charge in the southern campaign
Nathanael Greene
Name of the Fort Washington quickly builds to protect his men after Braddock's death
Fort Necessity
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry,Paul Revere were members
Sons of Liberty
Date of Paul Revere's midnight ride
April 18, 1775
Name of the battle where Washington makes his Christmas ride across the Delaware
Battle of Trenton
Date and place of the end of the war
October 17, 1781 Yorktown
Name of the new Prime minister in England that makes reforms to the British forces in the colonies
William Pitt
Name at least two of the wars that occurred in Europe and affected the colonies before the French and Indian War
King Williams's war, Queen Anne's war,War of Jenkin's Ear, King George's War
Plan that failed that was proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite that colonies
Albany Plan
Battle that convinces the French to join the war
Saratoga
Name three things that the US gained in the Treaty of Paris
Acknowledged American independence
US was given all land east of the Mississippi
Florida was given back to Spain