Let's Get Ready to Battle
A battle fought in New York where Benedict Arnold led American soldiers. It was the turning point of the war because foreign countries decided to aid us.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Punishments because of the Boston tea party such as closing up Boston, no town meetings, and British soldiers in homes.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Inventor, scientist, statesman who gave the conditions of the Treaty of Paris.
Who is Ben Franklin?
Wanted freedom from England?
What is a patriot?
Letter sent by the Second Continental Congress to the king, which tried to make peace and to have the king repeal the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The last major battle of the war. It took place in Virginia, Washington tricked Cornwallis then surrounded him by land while the French surrounded him by sea.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
A tax on goods coming into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
Author of Common Sense, a pamphlet to convince undecided colonists to become patriots.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Colonists who were loyal to England.
Who are loyalists?
A document written by Thomas Jefferson explaining the colonists' reasons for fighting and also declaring what they wanted.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A battle fought on a hill in Charlestown, MA between the redcoats and patriots. The patriots were told "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
They were a tax on paint, lead, tea, and paper.
What is the Townshend Acts?
King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
When you refuse to buy something to show your disapproval.
What is a boycott?
Sam Adams set this group up to spread news about what was happening in all of the different colonies.
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
Colonists called British soldiers redcoats and threw rocks and snowballs at them, causing the British to fire at the colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
A tax on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
An important member of the Sons of Liberty who died valiantly at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Who is Joseph Warren?
Colonists held meetings, boycotted, created petitions, and wrote letters.
What is protesting?
Met in Philadelphia and decided to demand rights, or freedoms for colonists.
What is the First Continental Congress?
April 17th 1775 British soldiers were sent out to Lexington and Concord to find Patriot weapons and arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock.
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
Patriots protested the tea tax by throwing tea into the water in the Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Spread the word to the minutemen that the British soldiers were marching to Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
Said by James Otis to say it is unfair to pay taxes when you have NO say in the government?
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
This meeting with representatives from the 13 colonies met and wrote, signed, and sent the Olive Branch Petition.
What is the Second Continental Congress?