Did you know?
This 1770 event, later used as patriot propaganda, resulted in the deaths of five colonists.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This colonial group enforced boycotts.
What is the Sons of Liberty.
The first battles of the war were fought in these two Massachusetts towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This 1765 act taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.
What was the Stamp Act?
Signed July 4, 1776, it proclaimed the colonies free and independent.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
American troops often lacked supplies but used this irregular style of fighting.
What is guerilla warfare?
He authored the influential 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, urging independence from Britain.
Who was Thomas Paine?
This man coined the term “shot heard ’round the world”?
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Washington crossed this river on Christmas night, 1776.
What is the Delaware River?
“No taxation without representation” referred to this governing body Americans lacked representation in.
What is Parliament?
The Declaration states that governments derive “their just powers” from this source.
What are the consent of the governed?
These foreign troops, hired by Britain, fought against the colonists.
Who were the Hessians?
This secret organization, including leaders like Samuel Adams, coordinated protest actions against British policies.
What was the Sons of Liberty?
This Virginian drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This turning-point 1777 American victory convinced France to join the war.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1773 event saw colonists dump tea into Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
America's first national constitution, ratified in 1781.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
American naval captain famous for saying, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
Who is John Paul Jones?
Nicknamed “Molly Pitcher,” she helped operate a cannon during the Battle of Monmouth.
Who was Mary Ludwig Hays?
This general led the British at Bunker Hill.
Who is William Howe?
The harsh winter encampment of 1777–78 where the Continental Army regrouped?
What is Valley Forge?
A series of punitive measures passed after the Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts?
Name for colonists who remained loyal to Britain.
Who were Loyalists (or Tories)?
French admiral whose fleet blocked the British at Yorktown.
Who is Admiral de Grasse?
The British hoped to isolate New England through this failed three-pronged campaign of 1777.
What was the Saratoga Campaign (or Burgoyne’s plan)?
Nicknamed the “Swamp Fox,” he led guerrilla fighters in South Carolina.
Who was Francis Marion?
The final major battle of the war, where Cornwallis surrendered.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
The 1774 meeting of colonial delegates responding to British actions.
What was the First Continental Congress?
Enlightenment thinker whose ideas on natural rights influenced Jefferson.
Who was John Locke?
Washington used this strategy—avoiding large battles and wearing the British down over time.
What is a war of attrition (or Fabian strategy)?