Declaring
Independence
Independence
He served as the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This battle led to Great Britain abandoning its claim to the American colonies and the end of the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown
He served as the General of the Continental Army and later as the first President of the United States
Who is George Washington
An inventor, writer and printer, this Patriot changed his mind about the colonies remaining with Great Britain because he believed the King would keep making unfair laws.
Who is Ben Franklin?
This act forced colonists to house British soldiers.
What was the Quartering Act?
On this date and year, the Declaration of Independence was signed.
When is July 4, 1776?
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This German mercenary trained Continental Army soldiers.
Who is Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
This Patriot showed "common sense" in his writing of a 1775 pamphlet that convinced many colonists it was time to declare independence.
Who was Thomas Paine?
Passed by the British in 1765 to pay for its debts from the French and Indian War, this act required colonists to pay a tax on printed papers.
What was the Stamp Act?
This declaration signer is famous for his large, fancy, looping signature.
Who was John Hancock?
After the colonists won this turning point battle, France declared war on Great Britain.
What are the Battles of Saratoga?
The Continental Army was made up of these untrained part-time soldiers called ____________ and these Patriot volunteers trained to be ready in a minute's notice.
Who were the militia and Minutemen?
He took two bullets to the chest and was the first to die in the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
This proclamation gave Native Americans land west of the Appalachian Mountains and prohibited colonists from settling there.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
This meeting began in Philadelphia in 1775, and on June 7, 1776 proposed a resolution that "these United Colonies are and by right ought to be, free and independent states."
What was the Second Continental Congress?
What was the First Continental Congress?
France agreed to supply __________ and loan ________ to the colonies to help them during the war.
What are weapons/arms and money?
Who is Samuel Adams?
The colonists felt it was unfair to be taxed without being represented in Parliament and used this phrase.
Signed in 1783, this peace treaty freed the colonists from British rule and recognized the independent nation, the United States of America.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
This war over lands along the Ohio River, started in 1754 and lasted almost ten years. It pitted the British who wanted to farm the land against the French, and their Indian allies, who wanted to capture beavers and trade furs in the area.
What was the French and Indian War?
Who was Spain?
A poet and writer, she believed women had a duty to speak out against Great Britain.
Who was Mercy Otis Warren?
The Boston Tea Party, during which patriots dumped 342 chests of British Tea into Boston Harbor, was in protest of this British Act.
What was the Tea Act?