Who wrote Common Sense, suggesting that the colonists break free from England?
What is Thomas Paine
100
What were the militia of Lexington called?
What is Minutemen
100
What is the document that the second continental congress sent to King George III?
What is The Olive Branch Petition
100
What were the two groups the colonies were divided by during the American Rev.?
What are The Loyalists and the American Patriots
100
What were some of the powers given to Congress?
What is Wage war, make treaties, send diplomats and borrow money
200
Which two people rode on horseback to warn the colonists of the British invasion?
What is Paul Revere and William Dawes
200
What was the name of the political party that supported the British in the colonies?
What are Tories (Loyalists)
200
Whose views were not represented at both of the continental congresses?
What are the Loyalists?
200
Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired?
What is Lexington
200
Wfo drafted the Articles of Confed.?
Who is John Dickinson
300
Who was The Olive Branch Petition sent to?
What is King George III
300
What battle ended the American Revolution?
What is Battle of Yorktown
300
What document, as the result of the second continental congress, called on the colonies to provide troops to fight the war?
What is the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms
300
What document ended the American Revolution?
What is The Treaty of Paris
300
Winning the American Rev., the land ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 were accomplishments of what?
What are the Articles of Confed
400
Who raided Quebec to draw Canada away from the British Empire?
What is Benedict Arnold
400
What provided regulations for making new states, gave limited self-government to new territories and prohibited slavery?
What is The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
400
The determining of how the colonies should react to the Intolerable Acts and respond to the British was the point of what?
What is The first continental congress
400
What event sparked the allience between France and the colonies?
What is Saratoga
400
List problems with the articles of confed?
What is no taxation power and no executive power
500
Who led the radical faction demanding the greatest concessions from Britain?
What is Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams and John Adams
500
Which battle turned the tables of the American Revolution?
What is The Battle of Saratoga
500
Which colonies sent delegates to the first continental congress?
What is Virginia, Mass., Penn. and New York (all sent more than one delegate)
500
These made up an important document; Britian would recognize as an independant nation; Mississippi river would be the western boundary of the nation; Americans would have fishing rights off the coast of Canada; Americans would pay debts owed to British merchants