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Puritan preacher during the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards
War fought between France and England over land in America
What is the French and Indian War
The Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The spiritual revival that began in New England and spread throughout the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
English hymn writer whose hymns were popular in the colonies during the Great Awakening.
Who is Isaac Watts?
War in which the American colonists fought for their freedom from England.
What is the War for Independence or What is the Revolutionary War?
This event caused the death of 5 citizens of Boston at the hands of British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
An agreement or understanding between 2 or more countries.
What is a treaty?
He was an important member of the Second Continental Congress and was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
Commander of the British troops during the French and Indian War.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
Important battle outside Boston where colonists showed the British their bravery in battle.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This was a meeting in which the colonial representatives wrote down a declaration of rights that American colonists should have.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This was a tax that only the colonists had to pay on documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
He was the captain in the Continental army who served as a spy for America.
Who is Nathan Hale?
England's King that passed laws that only colonists had to obey.
Who is King George III
This fort was captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in northern New York.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
This was the day that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
These were several decisions made by Britain, including the blockade of Boston Harbor, to punish the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
He led a group of men from Virginia down the Ohio River and captured three British forts.
Who is George Rogers Clark?
Important member of the Second Continental Congress and helped write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Important battle in which the British were stopped from capturing all of New York - the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This document was signed in 1783 in which England gave up the thirteen colonies and all the land from Florida to Canada.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Patriots who were trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice.
Who are the Minutemen?
He was the leader of the British army at the end of the war.
Who is General Lord Charles Cornwallis?