Pre-War
Dressed as Native Americans, the Sons of Liberty boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
George Washington
Last major battle of the Revolution
Yorktown
Winter 1777-78; the American camp during a tough winter; saw many die of starvation or the cold, but also saw the Continental Army turned into a tough, disciplines, cohesive unit.
Valley Forge
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Act imposed on the colonists that taxed any paper goods
Stamp Act
King George III
Lexington & Concord
Name for people living in the colonies who supported England.
Loyalist
Three named unalienable rights
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
This confrontation on March 5, 1770 ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people
Boston Massacre
German solider credited with turning the American colonists from Farmy to Army
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
FIRST American offensive victory
Ft. Ticonderoga
German soldiers who fought on the side of the British during the Revolutionary War
Hessians
Complete this famous phrase that was a rallying call for the colonist when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain. "No taxation....
Britain had to increase colonist taxes due to this war
French & Indian/ 7 Years War
Famous American traitor
Benedict Arnold
After this victory, France was convinced the colonists could win and joined the war
Battle of Saratoga
River George Washington crossed before the Battle of Trenton
The Delaware
What day did the Continental Congress vote for Independence? (Month/Day/Year)
July 2, 1776
These Acts were created in response to the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Author of Common Sense and American Crisis
Thomas Paine
Henry Knox's cannons helped win the siege of this city
Boston
This document officially ended the war in 1783
Treaty of Paris 1783
Recite the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.