People
Gettin' Angry
This and That
Allies & Enemies
Battles
100
Wrote Common Sense a booklet that encouraged colonists to declare independence from England.
Thomas Paine
100
This slogan was used by the Colonists to express that they should not be taxed without having a voice in their own legislatures.
“no taxation without representation”
100
Group of delegates (representatives) that acted as the government for the American colonies
Continental Congress
100
Without the support of this country, America might not have won the war for independence
France
100
Turning point of the war because the Colonists won which convinced France to support us.
Battle of Saratoga
200
General of the Continental Army and later the first president of the new nation.
200
This act passed by England would have upset Colonists who wanted to settle new land taken from the French after the French and Indian
Proclamation Act of 1763
200
Document in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain
Declaration of Independence
200
Who was the King of England during the American Revolution?
King George III
200
The "shot heard 'round the world" and the first battle for independence
Lexington and Concord
300
Colonists (men and women) who organized boycotts and protests against the British.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
300
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
300
Thomas Jefferson based his ideas for the Declaration of Independence on this Enlightened philosopher
300
British General who was defeated and surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown ending the Revolutionary War.
General Cornwallis
300
The British are trapped on the Virginia peninsula; General Cornwallis surrenders ending the war.
Battle of Yorktown
400
A military general in the Prussian (German) army who helped trained colonial troops in Valley Forge
Baron von Steuben
400
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston were all members of the __________whose job it was to draft and write the Declaration of Independence.
400
What action did England take against the colonies as a result of the French and Indian War?
increase taxes
400
An underground network of patriots whose purpose was to encourage communication between the colonies
Committee of Correspondence
400
General Washington leads troops across the Delaware River launching a surprise attack on the Hessians.
Battle of Trenton
500
He is considered the most responsible for getting France to provide military aid during the Revolutionary War
Benjamin Franklin
500
America gains lands from the Atlantic Ocean to east of the Mississippi River as a result of this
Treaty of Paris 1783
500
According to the Social Contract Theory, if a government is unjust the people can ____
rebel
500
French military general who fought with the colonists for American independence
Marquis de Lafayette
500
Winter camp in Pennsylvania where the Continental Army became a more professional and better trained fighting force.
Valley Forge