Causes
What act taxing paper goods led colonists to protest with the slogan "No taxation without representation"?
What is the Stamp Act?
The first battle of the American Revolution, fought in April 1775.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Country that gained independence from Britain as a result of the Revolution?
What is the United States?
This 1773 event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1776 document declared the colonies free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This pamphlet writer urged colonists to break from Britain with his work Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the Declaration with his ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This nation became America’s key ally, providing troops and naval support.
What is France?
Name the British law that closed Boston Harbor and placed Massachusetts under military rule after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
Name the 1777 battle considered the turning point of the war, convincing France to join the American side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Famously said, “We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately,” and helped draft the Declaration.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to do this in response to the Intolerable Acts.
Petition the King/send Grievances.
The British surrendered to Washington at this final major battle in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
This tax on sugar and molasses was one of the first to anger colonists after the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
This harsh winter encampment of 1777-1778 tested the endurance of Washington’s army.
What is Valley Forge?
This French nobleman aided the American cause and became a close ally of George Washington.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
Virginia Patriot who famously proclaimed, "Give me liberty, or give me death".
Who is Patrick Henry?
This term describes the form of government Americans chose instead of a monarchy.
What is a republic?
This proclamation banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, frustrating land-hungry colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The war officially ended with this 1783 treaty, recognizing American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Known as the “Swamp Fox,” this guerrilla fighter disrupted British supply lines in the South.
Who is Francis Marion?
An idea that was included in the Declaration of Independence, although changed by replacing "property", with "pursuit of happiness."
What are natural (or unalienable) rights?
A speech given at a later time in history that borrows from the ideas of the American Revolution.
What is the Gettysburg Address?