AM Rev #1
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is KING GEORGE III?
Document in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Document that stated no American colonist could move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Document officially ended the American Revolution?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Name of the war that put Britain into debt, which led to them raising taxes on the colonists?
What is the FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
The group that protested the British government
Sons of Liberty
The Patriot leader from Boston whose midnight rides warned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord.
PAUL REVERE
This was the first skirmish/violent conflict of the American Revolution
The Battle of Lexington & Concord
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
BOSTON MASSACRE
It is the name for someone in the colonies who supported the American Revolution.
What is a patriot?
What did the colonists call the 4 new laws that were imposed on them?
Intolerable Acts
What the colonists called British soldiers
True or False: The Declaration of Independence ended the Revolutionary War
False
law that declared that colonists must feed and houses British soldiers arriving from England. It may have lead to the Boston Massacre.
What is the Quartering Act?
This referred to someone in the colonies who supported England.
What is a Loyalist?
The place of the first big victory of the Continental Army
Battle of Saratoga
Commander of the Continental Army
George Washington
This policy, which stated that colonies exist to enrich the empire through trade and taxation, was of the things that the colonist most resented.
What is the Mercantilist Policy?
What month, day, and year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
July 4, 1776
Founding Father from Pennsylvania that came up with the Albany Plan of Union and was an ambassador to England at the start of the Revolution.
Ben Franklin
Which country helped the colonists win the war?
France
What word describes someone who supports and defends his or her country?
Patriots
Battle that took place in Boston in 1777. It was the first organized battle and showed Americans were determined and willing to fight the British.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A British General who re-captured Fort Ticonderoga on the way to Albany but surrendered his troops at the Battle of Saratoga.
Who is John Burgoyne?
What was the LAST major battle in the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Name the river that Washington & his troops crossed during the AR.
The Delaware River
The slogan the colonists kept saying because they were unhappy with the taxes.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
British General who surrendered at Yorktown
Who is CHARLES CORNWALLIS?
Name of Washington's Winter Camp in 1777-1778.
What is Valley Forge?
How many Americans fell during the Boston Massacre?
What is 5?
At this meeting in 1775 delegates from all 13 colonies met and created the Continental Army led by George Washington. They also sent the "Olive Branch Petition" to King George III.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
This was the lawmaking body of England that the colonist had no representation in?
What is Parliament?
French Aristocrat and soldier who came to America and joined Washington's army. He helped lead American soldiers into many battles.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
This convened in 1774 to protest the Intolerable Acts. They voted to boycott British goods, stop exports, and started to form militias.
What is the First Continental Congress?