The Declaration of Independence
The complete date (MDY) the Declaration of Independence was unanimously approved.
What is July 4, 1776?
The group that took over Ft. Ticonderoga without firing a single shot.
Who are the Green Mountain Boys?
King George III's reaction to the Olive Branch Petition.
What is "he refused to open it and called the colonists "enemies"?"
A person that wanted to fight the British for their independence.
What is a patriot?
The name given to the army by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Continental Army?
The two values that the Declaration of Independence emphasized.
What is liberty and equality?
The winners of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Who are the British?
What the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a prelude to.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A person that was loyal to the British and did not want to fight them.
What is a loyalist?
The man that the Second Continental Army put in charge of the Army.
Who is George Washington?
The person that wrote the majority of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The leader of the group that took over Ft. Ticonderoga.
Who is Ethan Allen?
An outline of why the colonists were fighting the British.
What is the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms?
The place where the Hessians were from.
What is Hesse-Cassel, Germany?
The reasons why it was important the authors of the Declaration of Independence represented all three regions of colonies.
What is equal representation from all the colonies in an effort to unite them?
No, because England still needed to grant that independence.
What is "did the Declaration of Independence mean the colonies were free from England?"
The reason why Ft. Ticonderoga was important.
What the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms did NOT do.
What is declare independence from England?
The reason why the British fled Boston.
The author of the two pamphlets that greatly influenced both the colonists and the troops.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The five authors of the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston?
The hill where the majority of the fighting took place.
What is Breed's Hill?
The group that wrote the Olive Branch Petition and the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What the British attempted to do to stop the colonists from resisting.
What is order a blockade of ships in New England, increase military action, and hire Hessians?
The names of the two pamphlets that greatly influenced the colonists and the troops.
What is Common Sense and the American Crisis?
American Crisis is the one that George Washington required his officers to read.