Road to Revolution pt.
This 1765 act required colonists to pay a tax on most paper documents that required an official stamp.
The Stamp Act
This 1770 event, where British soldiers fired on a crowd, was famously engraved and used as propaganda by Paul Revere.
The Boston Massacre
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was chosen by the Second Continental Congress to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
George Washington
This was the name for colonial militia members who were said to be ready to fight "at a minute's notice."
Minutemen
This conflict, fought between 1754 and 1763, left Great Britain with a huge debt, which it tried to pay by taxing the colonies.
The French and Indian War
These were the first two skirmishes of the war in April 1775, known for the "shot heard 'round the world."
Lexington and Concord
What are the three unalienable rights mentioned in the DOI?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The Continental Army famously endured a brutal winter of training, starvation, and disease at this camp in Pennsylvania.
Valley Forge
A colonist who supported independence from Britain was called this.
Patriot
This secret group, led by men like Samuel Adams, organized boycotts and protests like the Boston Tea Party.
Sons of Liberty
This gathering of the colonies called for the creation of a Continental Army
2nd Continental Congress
The Declaration states that people have the right to "alter or to" do this to a government that becomes destructive of their rights.
abolish
This 1777 American victory in New York is considered the "turning point" of the war because it convinced France to become an ally.
Saratoga
This was the name for a colonist who remained loyal to King George III and Great Britain.
loyalist
This law forced colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies to British soldiers.
The Quartering Act
Britain passed this series of harsh laws, which closed Boston Harbor, to punish Massachusetts for the Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
The DOI contains many ideas on government from what intellectual movement in Europe?
The Enlightenment
This was the final major battle of the war in 1781, where Lord Cornwallis was trapped on a peninsula and surrendered to Washington.
Yorktown
This term describes a formal, organized refusal to buy specific goods as a form of protest, which the colonists used against British goods.
boycott
This royal decree in 1763 banned all colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflict with Native Americans.
The Proclamation of 1763
This 1774 meeting in Philadelphia brought delegates from 12 colonies together to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
First Continental Congress
DAILY DOUBLE
What crime were the signers of the DOI committing?
What was the name of the Prussian military officer who helped train the Continental Army?
Baron Von Steuben
A soldier who is paid to fight for a foreign country, like the German "Hessians" hired by the British.
mercenary