Acts
This taxed almost all printed materials, including newspapers, wills, and playing cards
The Stamp Act
342 chests of tea were destroyed after midnight on December 16, 1773 by colonists dressed as Native Americans
The Boston Tea Party
One of the following was not part of the original 13 colonies: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, New Jersey
Florida
British Government hired these 30,000 German soldiers to help fight against the colonists
Hessians
This person published a small pamphlet entitled "Common Sense", which called for a complete break from Great Britain
Thomas Paine
These men served in voluntary militias that could be ready to fight at a moment's notice
Minutemen
This act lowered the tax on the molasses the colonists imported. Britain hoped this change would convince the colonists to pay the tax instead of smuggling.
The Sugar Act
Five colonists were killed by British soldiers in this incident on the streets of Boston, March 5, 1770
The Boston Massacre
This colony was the only not in attendance when the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia
Georgia
This country helped the colonies by supplying them with arms and ammunition via the Mississippi River
Spain
He was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
The Declaration of Independence was signed on this month, date, and year
July 4, 1776
This act taxed imported goods, such as glass, tea, and paper
The Townshend Acts
Christmas night 1776, Patriot troops crossed this river to surprise German mercenaries at dawn
Delaware River
Thomas Jefferson was 1 of 7 delegates from this colony
Virgina
This French aristocrat served as a major general in Washington's Continental Army.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
This patriot famously said, "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
James Otis, Jr.
Over 80,000 in this group fled to Canada to escape mob violence
Loyalist
Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party was to pass these punitive laws in 1774
The Intolerable Acts
Patriot allies Spain and the Netherlands continued fighting the British at sea until the Treaty of Paris in this year
1783
This colony was the last to vote on the changes to the Declaration of Independence
New York
This French leader led 5,000 men at the battle of Yorktown.
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
The British general who captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1777
General John Burgoyne
This man led the Massachusetts Militia at Lexington on April 19, 1775
Captain John Parker
This order prohibited colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains on Native American Land
The Proclamation of 1763
The second convening of this group of delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776
The Continental Congress
By the end of the war, this was the only state without African Americans enlisted
South Carolina
This French Admiral defeated the British Fleet at the Battle of the Capes
Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse
George Washington plotted to have this man kidnapped
Benedict Arnold
The final battle of the American Revolution
The Siege of Yorktown
This was a formal request delegates sent to Britain as a last chance of avoid war
The Olive Branch Petition
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Congress and ratified by the states in different years
1777, 1781
He said, "The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American."
Patrick Henry
This Mohawk Indian lead the Iroquois nations in battle and served as a native language translator for the British Army
Joseph Brant, Indian name Thayendanagea
This individual recorded one of the first battles at sea against a British Navy fleet
John Paul Jones
After shooting colonists in the back at Lexington Green, the redcoats shouted this three times
Huzzah!