reasons for the colonies and Britain to grow apart
Battles
100
Who's army faced many problems?
Who is George Washington?
100
27,000 Americans were killed
How many Americans were killed in the American Revolution
100
Not buying British goods
What were the boycotts?
100
British makes the colonist house their troops
What is the Quartering act
100
South Carolina, Americans were syrrounded and suffered their defeat
What is Battle of Charlestown
200
What British general surrendered to the Americans?
Who is John Burgoyne
200
10,000 British dead
How many British soldiers died?
200
5 colonists were killed
As a result of protests, what happened during the Boston Massacre?
200
Britain passed these tax acts to make the colonist pay for the French and Indian war
What is the Sugar and stamp act?
200
The British had trouble controlling the south, the "Swamp Fox" and his men would attack British supplies, the British realized the countryside was a dangerous place.
What is Guerrilla war?
300
What French Aristocrat joined the continental army and supplied the troops with his own money?
Marquis de Lafayette
300
27 million dollars in debt
How much debt the Americans have?
300
The Intolerable Acts
In response to the Boston Tea Party, what did the British pass?
300
"No taxation without representation"
What is the slogan the the colonist say to express their anger at the British? hint (why are the colonist mad?)
300
After a series of defeats, Washington and his army had to retreat, he attacked German hessians on December 25 th, Americans won and captured or killed 900 Hessians THIS VICTORY motivated and attreacted more colonial troops.
What is the Victory at Trenton
400
Who inspired Americans with the Quote "I have not yet begun to fight"
Who is John Paul Jones
400
The Loyalists
Whose properties were seized?
400
Closed the port of Boston, banned town meetings, increased the Governors power, appointed councils, protected British Officials
What were some of the Intolerable Acts?
400
British keeps 10,00 troops in America so the coloist won't move west.
What is the proclamation of 1763?
400
British soldiers sent to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams and to destroy the militias weapons and ammunitions.
Paul Reveres mid night ride warned Americans that british were coming.
American Militia and Minutemen fought the British and forced them to retreat to Boston
What is Lexington and concord
500
Who led the British army, made his base at Yorktown, and surrendered on October 19,1781
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
500
About 100,000
How many Loyalists had to flee to Canada or England?
500
To protest the tea act
Why was tea dumped into the Boston Harbor?
500
British officers seach colonist homes for smuggled or illegal goods
What is writs of assistance?
500
-American general Horatio Gates blocked the British
-battles where Amercan forces defeated and surrounded the British forces
_General Burgoyne surrenders to the American
-Turning point of the American Revolution
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