Road to Revolution
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials like newspapers, legal documents, and even playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
He wrote the pamphlet Common Sense in 1776, convincing many colonists to support independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This early battle in June 1775 showed that colonial militia could stand up to the British, even though they eventually lost when they ran out of ammunition.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This European country became the United States’ most important ally after the American victory at Saratoga.
What is France?
This 1776 document announced the colonies’ separation from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This Boston man was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre and is often called the first martyr of the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
In 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesting colonists, killing five people in an event later called this.
What is the Boston Massacre
This Virginian became commander of the Continental Army during the Second Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
On the night of December 25, 1776, Washington led a surprise attack on an enemy force in New Jersey, giving the Americans a much-needed victory.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
This young French nobleman volunteered to serve in the Continental Army and became one of Washington’s closest generals.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence, drawing on Enlightenment ideas about natural rights.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These women often followed the Continental Army, cooking, nursing, and providing supplies for soldiers.
Who were camp followers?
his 1773 protest saw colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dump 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This founding father from Massachusetts strongly pushed for independence and later became the second President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
The force Washington attacked at this New Jersey battle was made up of German soldiers hired by the British. What were these soldiers called?
Who were the Hessians?
This former Prussian officer trained American troops at Valley Forge, improving discipline and battlefield skills.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
The Declaration of Independence states that all people have these three basic rights, which governments are created to protect.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This group included both free and enslaved individuals who fought for the Patriots or the British, hoping to gain freedom or protect their communities.
Who are African Americans?
After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament punished Massachusetts with laws the colonists called the “Intolerable Acts.”
Name one restriction from those laws.
What is (closed Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, allowed British troops to be quartered in homes, put Massachusetts under martial law)
This inventor and diplomat helped secure the French alliance after the victory at Saratoga.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The final major battle of the Revolution took place in Virginia, where the Americans and French trapped the British on a narrow strip of land surrounded by water on three sides. What geographic feature helped the allies force the British surrender?
What is the Yorktown Peninsula?
The King of England tried to prevent the colonies from rebelling by enforcing laws and taxes. Name one policy or act he supported that angered the colonists.
Examples: Stamp Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, Quartering Act
This group of five men, including Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, was appointed by the Second Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Committee of Five?
Some Native American nations sided with the Americans, while most supported the British. Name one reason Native groups chose a side during the Revolution.
What is to prevent further encroachment on native land by colonial Americans?
These groups formed in the colonies to spread news, coordinate resistance, and unify colonists against Britain.
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
Known as the “Father of the American Revolution,” he organized the Sons of Liberty and helped lead protests like the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This American victory is called the turning point of the Revolution because it secured French support for the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This British king was the central figure of authority that the Declaration of Independence blamed for colonial grievances.
Who is King George III?
The Declaration of Independence states that people have certain natural rights. This Enlightenment thinker influenced Jefferson’s ideas about life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This Patriot is famous for riding through the night to warn colonists that British troops were marching toward Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
The “shot heard ’round the world” was fired in April 1775 at this Massachusetts town, marking the official start of the Revolution.
What is Lexington (and Concord)?
This Virginian was the main author of the Declaration of Independence, which borrowed heavily from Enlightenment ideas.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
At the 1777 Battle of Saratoga, American forces held this ridge, forcing the British to surrender and convincing France to join the war.
What is Bemis Heights?
At Valley Forge, these two foreign officers helped the Continental Army: one trained the troops and wrote a drill manual, while the other provided leadership and boosted morale. Name both men.
Who are Baron von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette?
Jefferson argued that if a government fails to protect people’s rights, they have the right to change or replace it. This principle comes from Locke's political theory that explains the relationship between rulers and the people.
What is the social contract theory?
This colonial leader and diplomat helped secure crucial French support for the American Revolution through his negotiations in Paris.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?