Causes
This tax on printed materials angered colonists in 1765.
What is the Stamp Act?
These colonists could be ready to fight in a minute.
Who are Minutemen?
This 1776 document declared the colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
He served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
George Washington and his troops spent a winter at this place retraining and preparing.
What is Valley Forge?
This act required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The “shot heard ’round the world” was fired at this battle.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to urge colonists to fight for independence.
What is Common Sense?
This group of people would either stay home and manage the households, help create uniforms, and/or would care for wounded soldiers?
What are women?
This popular slogan was used by the colonists to protest the new unfair taxes.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This event in 1770, where British soldiers killed five colonists, fueled anti-British feelings.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1777 victory convinced France to support the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This law prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This Founding Father wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These were the names for those who supported the King and those who supported independence during the war.
What are "loyalists" and "patriots"?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed these harsh laws.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Despite losing, the colonists showed determination at this 1775 battle near Boston.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The peace treaty that officially ended the war in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
These representatives created what group in 1764 to create a petition to the king.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This event involved dumping tea into a certain harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This act imposed a tax on sugar and created stricter customs laws.
What is the Sugar Act?
The war officially ended after the British surrendered here in 1781.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Thomas Jefferson described people's "natural rights" in the Declaration of Independence as what?
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This governing body was created in 1774 to govern all 13 colonies.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
This group of colonists organized by Samuel Adams led protests against new taxes, commonly by tar and feathering tax collectors.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?