Important Dates
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
This battle was a turning point in the war for the Americans. British General Burgoyne surrendered to the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Who is Horatio Gates?
Complete this famous phrase that was a rallying call for the colonists when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain. "No taxation...
What is "without representation"?
They were charged with negotiating the peace treaty with Great Britain.
Who are John Jay, Ben Franklin, and John Adams?
The year the Treaty of Paris was signed.
What is 1783?
This battle effectively ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Name two of the accomplishments of the Second Continental Congress.
What are
Agreed to create a Continental Army
Commissioned George Washington of Virginia to be the supreme commander (who chose to serve without pay)
Authorized the printing of money
Appointed a standing committee to conduct relations with foreign governments, should the need ever arise to ask for help
This was the place Washington and his soldiers spent Winter, a miserable and deadly place for his men.
What is Valley Forge?
He worked under Washington’s staff and fought in the Revolution.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What is 1775?
The British won this early battle, but it suffered numerous casualties and learned that defeating the Americans would not be an easy proposition.
What is Bunker Hill?
This is the British General who surrendered at Yorktown.
Who is Charles Cornwallis?
He was the first man to die in the Revolution, and he was African American.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This Prussian soldier “taught them to efficiently load, fire and reload weapons, charge with bayonets and march in compact columns of four instead of miles-long single-file marches.”
Who is former Prussian military officer Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben?
The Battle of Bunker Hill occurred in this year.
What is 1775?
The first shots of the Revolution that were fired at Lexington and Concord, and began the war, became known as this.
What is the Shot Heard Around the World?
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
Name two advantages held by the Americans to start the Revolutionary War.
What are
Home-field Environment / Land
Grand Cause (Independence, Rights and Liberty)
Surprisingly Effective Leadership
Time was on USA side, Britain already in Debt
French Alliance
King George's Proclamation of 1763 did not allow the colonists to migrate here.
What are lands located west of the Appalachian mountains?
The final battle of the American Revolutionary War occurred this year.
What is 1781?
George Washington scored two victories at Trenton and Princeton in this state.
What is New Jersey?
German soldiers who fought on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War.
Who are the Hessians?
Name two advantages held by the British at the start of the American Revolutionary War.
What are
Superior Navy
Soldiers well supplied (Food, Equipment, Ammunition)
Well Paid and Better Trained
Native American and Hessian (German) Allies
Name one of the two main provisions of the Treaty of Paris.
What are the following: The colonies were recognized as independent from GB and they were free to explore and settle in other parts of the continent?