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Whose side did the Native Americans fight on during the French and Indian War?
The French
The reason the French and Indian War was fought
The British wanted to take the land around the Ohio River Valley
Parliament is
British government/legislature
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
A colonial who supported Great Britain was called
A Loyalist
A colonial militia soldier who claimed they could be ready to fight in a minute was called
a minuteman
A colonial who supported the cause for American independence was called
a Patriot
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed
July 4, (1776)
Closed the Boston Harbor until the Colonists paid for the Boston Tea party....this was called
The Intolerable Acts
George Washington did this on Christmas night
crossed the Delaware River and attacked Trenton
The point of the Common Sense pamphlet
the power to govern comes from the people
Describe the Boston Massacre
Snowballs and rocks were thrown and then soldiers fired into a crowd killing 5 colonials
Did Britain respond to the Americans declaring the Stamp Act illegal, if so how
they repealed the act, but did tell them it wasn't illegal for them to have that act in place
Could the battle at Bunker Hill could be considered an American victory
Yes
The person that fired the shot heard round the world
nobody knows
the first African American to die for independence
Crispus Attucks
One act or law that raised taxes for the colonists
Tea Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townsend Acts
Mercenaries are
soldiers who are hired to fight
German mercenaries are called
Hessians
On Christmas night, Washington decided to
lead a surprise attack against Trenton, NJ
Why did the British go to Concord
To find arms and ammunition that were stored that
These people were expected to pay for the French and Indian War
The colonists
These groups fought in the French and Indian War
French and Native Americans vs. The British and Colonists
the battle at Bunker Hill be considered an American victory because
the American were able to wound over 1,000 British soldiers
Won the Battles of Lexington and Concord
British were winning at first, but because of guerrilla warfare, the colonials killed many more British soldiers and won