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This global war from 1756–1763 left Britain deeply in debt and led to new colonial taxation.
What is the 7 Years War?
This Virginian planter commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This is the official name of the religious group to which Elizabeth Drinker belonged.
What is the Religious Society of Friends?
This organisation helped coordinate colonial protests and resistance against British taxation.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This economic system required colonies to supply raw materials to the mother country and purchase manufactured goods in return.
What is mercantilism?
This king ruled Britain during most of the American Revolution.
Who is the King George the Third?
This Massachusetts Patriot helped organise colonial resistance and was involved in writing the 1768 Circular Letter.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Although women contributed significantly to the revolutionary movement, they lacked this key political right in the new republic.
What is the right to vote?
This protest in 1773 involved colonists boarding ships and dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Under Imperial policy, colonial raw materials such as tobacco and sugar were expected to be exported primarily to this country.
What is Britain?
This 2000 film stars Mel Gibson as a veteran of the French and Indian War who reluctantly joins the War of Independence.
What is 'The Patriot'?
This colonial printer and thinker helped popularise revolutionary ideas through pamphlets such as Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This famous letter writer urged her husband to “remember the ladies” while forming the new American government.
Who is Abigail Adams?
This deadly confrontation in 1770 saw British soldiers fire into a crowd of colonists in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This alcohol was commonly made from sugar grown in the colonies and commonly consumed by sailors in the Royal Navy.
What is rum?
This 1781 battle is widely considered the first battle of the War of Independence.
What is 'The Battle of Yorktown'?
This British politician was nicknamed Champagne Charlie.
Who was Charles Townshend?
Colonial women often participated in protests by organising this economic tactic against British goods.
What is a boycott?
These punitive laws passed in 1774 were intended to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts (or the Coercive Acts)?
This illegal practice became common among colonists attempting to avoid British trade regulations.
What is smuggling?
This major imperial asset made Britain appear overwhelmingly powerful at the beginning of the conflict with the colonies.
What is the Royal Navy?
This young French aristocrat travelled to America to fight for the Patriot cause and became one of Washington’s most trusted allies.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
This German princess married King George the Third and together they produced 15 children.
Who is Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
This powerful Patriot leader engraved the famous image of the Boston Massacre used as revolutionary propaganda.
Who is Paul Revere?
This triangular trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Atlantic trade?