Battles
June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
A key city during the Revolution, both symbolically and strategically. Also known as birthplace of the American Revolution
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
Who was George Washington?
This act by put forth by the British forced Colonists to pay taxes on all imported goods from Britain.
What were the Townshend Acts?
The number of Americans who died in the Revolutionary War
What is around 34,000?
The climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
The birthplace of the United States. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence here.
What is Independence Hall?
One of the founding fathers that helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
A confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers killed five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles
What is the Boston Massacre?
The number of British men who died in the Revolutionary War
What is around 24,000?
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
The colonial home of the American patriot and Founding Father that helped warn the militia of that the British were coming
What was Paul Revere's house?
The King of Great Britain and of Ireland during the American Revolutionary War
Who was King George III?
The American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773
What was the Boston Tea Party?
True or False: There were only 10 copies of the Declaration of Independence
False
The German battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies
What was the Siege of Yorktown?
The important waterway in New York during the American Revolutionary War
What was the Hudson River?
The person that warned the American militia that the British were there.
Who was Paul Revere
The document declaring independence for the colonies from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The year that the American Revolutionary War officially finished with the signing of the Treaty of Paris
What is 1783?
An engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 in South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas.
What was the Battle of Cowpens?
The castle King George III lived in during the American Revolutionary War
What was the Windsor Castle?
The British Commander-in-Chief in America from 1775 to 1782.
Who was Henry Clinton?
The Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act
What were the Intolerable Acts?
The first Native American tribe to help the colonists
Who were the Oneida?