Important People
Who was the first African American to die for the revolutionary cause? (Hint: Boston Massacre)
Crispus Attucks
The Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townshend Act were all ______that the king passed without asking the colonists?
Taxes
She brought pitchers of water to the battlefields and took over the cannon for her husband.
Molly Pitcher
He was the first person to suggest the colonies become independent. He was the second president.
John Adams
Farmers who could be ready "in a minute" to report for duty and fight against the British
minutemen
Who was the leader of the Colonial army and our first president?
George Washington
Colonists argued and threw objects at the British soldiers and shots were fired. This was the __________ _____________
Boston Massacre
She was the First Lady and fought for women's rights.
Abigail Adams
He was a lawyer and the first to say that "taxation without representation" was unfair.
James Otis
The British soldiers had marched to these two towns because colonists had hidden ______________ there.
Weapons
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence (BIG so the king could see it)?
John Hancock
Colonists dressed up and dumped tea into the Harbor because they were upset about the taxes. This event was the ________ _________ __________
Boston Tea Party
She was the first African American poet to be published in the colonies.
Phyllis Wheatley
John Hancock and Samuel Adams
The first two battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in ______________ and ________________
Lexington and Concord
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
The King closed _______ ________ after the colonists dumped tea in the water.
Boston Harbor
He was the leader of the British Army and surrendered to George Washington
Lord Cornwallis
He organized the Boston Tea Party and was the Governor of Massachusetts.
Samuel Adams
How did the colonists communicate with other places?
They wrote letters to the other towns and colonies
Who rode his horse to Lexington to warn that the "British are coming?"
Paul Revere
The important document that was signed at the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
Declaration of Independence
He invented many different items that helped people. (electricity, the Franklin Stove, etc.)
Benjamin Franklin
Alongside Paul Revere, these other two men rode to warn that the British were coming.
William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott
Describe what happened at the battle of Lexington and Concord
Lexington- 1st shot fired, 8 colonists died, soldiers kept marching
Concord- Fought on North Bridge, soldiers destroyed weapons and supplies.