Bills to Pay
The British government borrowed a lot of money to fight this war. (p.2)
What is the French and Indian War?
This group made public speeches against taxes and the British government. (p.10)
What was the Sons of Liberty?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament approved a series of strict new laws that Bostonians referred to as these. (p. 18 - 21)
What is the Intolerable Acts?
This early Revolutionary War battle was unusually named as it was actually fought on Breed's Hill. (p.32)
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War this army seemed more likely to win because they had more weapons, soldiers and experience. (p. 40)
What was the British military?
In 1765, King George III proposed this act to help repay the war debt. (p.5)
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1767, these taxes on imported goods, like tea, replaced the Stamp Act. (p. 10)
What are the Townshend Acts?
In September 1774, this 56 member group drafted a list of complaints and grievances against the king and his British government in response to the Intolerable Acts. (p.21-22)
What was the First Continental Congress?
After months of discussions, the Second Continental Congress agreed to establish this army under the leadership of Commander George Washington. (p. 33)
What was the Continental Army?
On this date, George Washington led troops from Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to sneak attack enemy forces in New Jersey. (p.42 - 43)
What was Christmas night of 1776 (December 25, 1776)?
The Stamp Act was a tax on these. (p.5)
What is printed materials?
This incident occurred when approximately 300 angry Bostonians showed aggression towards British soldiers in their city. (p. 12-13)
What is the Boston Massacre?
This country lawyer proposed that it was time to stop talking about peace and start fighting for liberty while writing, "....give me liberty or give me death!" (p. 22)
Who was Patrick Henry?
Thomas Paine authored this pamphlet calling for the 13 colonies to separate from Great Britain and form a government of elected representatives. (p. 34)
What was Common Sense?
More than 6,000 British soldiers surrendered during this first major victory for the Continental Army. (p.44)
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This was an assembly of representatives from different parts of Virginia. (p.5)
What is the House of Burgesses?
This Sons of Liberty member created a work of art (an engraving) depicting the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
These special troops within the Massachusetts militiamen were ready to fight at a moment's notice. (p.22)
Who were the minutemen?
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt this Thomas Jefferson written document stating the reasons why the 13 colonies should be independent from Britain. (p. 35)
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Washington's troops faced a very difficult winter of 1777 to 1778 in this Pennsylvania town, with many becoming ill and a significant number dying. (p. 44-46)
What was Valley Forge?
His face is on some current day U.S. currency. He fought alongside the British in the French and Indian War; and was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1758. (p.9)
Who is George Washington?
In December 1773, the Sons of Liberty threw hundreds of chests of tea into the Atlantic Ocean as an act of protest toward "taxation without representation" known as this. (p.14)
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This patriot never actually yelled, "The British are coming!" when alerting minutemen from the Massachusetts militia that British soldiers were coming to seize weapons that patriots had stockpiled at Concord. (p.23-24)
Who was Paul Revere?
The Declaration of Independence declares that men are created with these unalienable rights.
What is Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?
This French nobleman had a prominent role in the Revolutionary War. (p. 47 - don't forget the captions)
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?