American Revolution #1
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
To protest something by refusing to buy, use, or participate.
What is Boycott?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army?
George Washington
The agreement that ended the Revolutionary war
What is the Treaty of Paris
Who wrote the Pamphlet, Common Sense, urging many neutrals that independence from Britain is the best option?
Thomas Paine
People in the thirteen colonies who supported independence were called this term.
What are Patriots.
Another word or nickname for a British soldier?
What is a redcoat?
What was King George's Proclamation of 1763?
King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off-limits to colonial settlers.
Rights that cannot be given away or taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
The French were fighting the British for control of land in the Ohio Valley. Some Native American tribes fought with the British and others fought with the French. What war was this?
What is the French and Indian War?
People who supported Great Britain and the king were called this term.
What are Loyalists
Finish this sentence "We hold these truths to be _____"
Self-evident
Who fired the first shot at Lexington and Concord?
Nobody knows
During the French and Indian War, he gradually took on more responsibility and leadership. Crossed the Delaware to fight the Hessians.
Who is Gen. George Washington?
Why did the British tax the colonists on printed materials and tea?
To make the colonists pay them back for letting them use their army in the French and Indian War.
Dressed as Native Americans, the Sons of Liberty boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor during this event leading up to the American Revolution?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776.
General George Washington built immunity to smallpox in his troops at Valley Forge by making a small cut on their body and spreading an active smallpox virus in the cut, forcing the person's body to create antibodies to the smallpox virus, thus creating immunity and decreasing the amount of people lost to the virus.
What is inoculation?
Another word for loyalists.
Who are tories?
What was the biggest problem faced by George Washington at Valley Forge?
Military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility, to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
What is the word for "the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information."
What is espionage?
Under dense fog, he left fires burning
These countries provided aid to the colonists in their fight for independence against the British.
Who is the French and Spanish?