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What year did the American Revolution end?
1783
What was the Stamp Act?
A tax put on paper products
What were the first two battles of the American Revolution?
Lexington and Concord
What document started the American Revolution?
Declaration of Independence
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
What year did the American revolution start?
1775
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
Forbid colonists from settling west of the line
What was the turning point in the American Revolution?
The Battle of Saratoga
What are unalienable rights?
Rights that cannot be given or taken away
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
How long did the American Revolution last?
What was the name of the four series of laws the British made on the colonist after the Boston Tea party?
Intolerable Acts
Where did Washington station his troops?
Valley Forge
What did Paul Revere warn the colonists about?
The British attack
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
What happened July 1776?
America declares Independence from the British.
Why did the colonist dump tea into the Boston harbor?
To protest against the parliaments taxes on tea
What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 end?
French and Indian war
What document urged the ratification of the Constitution?
Federalist Papers
Who said the phrase "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
What month was the Battle of Yorktown?
September
Samuel Adams formed what to protest taxes in Boston?
The Sons of Liberty
What does the phrase "Love Can Save You" stand for?
Lexington & Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown
What was listed in the Declaration of Independence?
The grievances of the colonists
Who was the first person who died during the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks