Natural Born Rebels
Thomas Jefferson wrote that these are the three "natural rights" all people are born with.
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
The British "Divide and Conquer" strategy focused on seizing this river valley to cut New England off from the South.
What is the Hudson River Valley?
This 1777 battle is widely considered the "Turning Point" because it convinced France to join the American side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This city hosted the 2nd Continental Congress and is where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is Philadelphia
This was the specific year the Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the war.
What is 1783
This secret society is led by who, that created the foundation of activism (and sometimes violence) to protest British taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty and Sam Adams.
This massive river became the new western boundary of the United States following the Treaty of Paris.
What is the Mississippi River?
Washington attacked these German mercenaries at Trenton to give his struggling army a much-needed morale boost.
Who are the Hessians?
While not a battle, this winter camp in PA was where the Continental Army was professionally trained by Baron von Steuben.
What is Valley Forge?
The surrender at Yorktown was made possible when this nation’s navy blocked the British escape by sea.
What is the French
While a "Patriot" wanted independence, this was the common name for a colonist who remained loyal to the King.
What is a Tory (or Loyalist)?
What is Lexington & Concord (April 19, 1775), Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (May 10, 1775), and Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775)
This man served as the first American Ambassador to France, successfully charming them into a military alliance.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This city served as the capital of the United States for exactly one day in 1777.
Lancaster
He was the British General who surrendered his entire army at Yorktown in October 1781.
Who is General Cornwallis?
Which term, inspired by the color of their uniforms, was used to describe the British 'Regulars' during the Revolutionary War?
Who are Redcoats
This city’s strategic harbor/port made it the British headquarters for almost the entire war after they captured it in 1776.
What is New York City?
This general, later known as a traitor, was actually a hero for the Americans at the Battle of Saratoga.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
What is this an example of from the Declaration of Independence. "For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us" as one of the injuries inflicted by the King."
What is a grievance
We know that the date of the signing of the Treaty of Paris 178_, but what is the date of the surrender of Yorktown?
What is 1781
While history often remembers only one name from the night of April 18, 1775, these were the three men who rode to warn the colonial militia that British troops were approaching Lexington.
Who are Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott?
The "Invasion of Canada" failed after the Continental Army was unable to capture this one specific northern city on the St. Lawrence River.
What is Quebec?
This earlier battle at a captured New York fort provided the cannons, weapons, and other artillery needed to drive the British out of Boston.
What is the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga?
There are at least seven armed conflicts that we talked about for the "Philadelphia Campaign". Name at least two of the battles or seiges that eventually lost Philadelphia.
What is Brandywine, Paoli, Siege of Fort Mifflin, Germantown, Monmouth, Fort Mercer, and Province and Carpenter's Island.
Beyond establishing independence and sovereignty, which two additional guarantees did the Treaty of Paris provide the United States?
American citizens were granted fishing rights off of the coast of Canada and other areas. The United States promised that Congress would recommend to states that they provide for the restitution of Loyalist property and that no future confiscations or prosecutions would occur. Great Britain agreed to withdraw all troops, garrisons, and fleets from the United States.