Events Leading to the Revolution
Important Battles
Declaring Independence
Miscellaneous
Revolutionary Vocabulary
100
France and Britain were fighting for control of the Ohio River Valley.
What is the reason for the French and Indian War?
100
The battle that started the war and was known as "the Shot Heard Round the World"
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
100
Wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The allies that helped the British fight against the colonists.
Who are the German Hessians?
100
Not being under the control or rule of another.
What is independence?
200
The result of the French and Indian War that stated colonists could not settle in the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
200
The battle that is considered the turning point of the war and convinced France to help the Americans fight the British
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
The Declaration was signed on this date
What is July 4, 1776
200
The allies that helped the colonists win the war against the British.
Who are the French and Spanish.
200
The crime of attempting to overthrow a government
What is treason?
300
A tax on printed materials such as legal documents, newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
The place where Washington's Army spent the long, cold winter of 1777/1778. There was not much food or warm clothing, many soldiers had no shoes. Those who survived this winter were transformed into a powerful, united fighitng force proud to be under the command of General Washington.
What is Valley Forge?
300
The 3 unalienable rights mentioned in the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
300
Several laws passed to punish Boston after the Boston Tea Party. One of these laws closed the port of Boston until the destroyed tea was paid for.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
A refusal to buy goods.
What is a boycott?
400
A law that said only one company, the British East India Company, would be able to sell tea to the colonies and there was a tax on that tea as well.
What is The Tea Act?
400
The British actually won this battle, but because so many of their men were killed or wounded it convinced the Americans that the British were not invinceable.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
The signing of the Declaration was dangerous because it was considered an act of _____________.
What is treason?
400
The idea that Parliament had no right to tax the colonists because colonists did not vote for the Parliament led to this popular protest cry.
What is "no taxation without representation!"
400
The right to have a say in political decisions or laws passed for a country
What is representation?
500
Laws that placed a tax on goods imported from Britain such as paper, wool and tea.
What are the Townshend Duties?
500
General George Cornwallis of the British Army surrendered here. After six years of fighting this was the last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
The introduction of the Declaration that explains why it is being written.
What is the Preamble?
500
One of the American leaders at the Battle of Saratoga who later joined the British army in exchange for money, becoming one of the most famous traitors in American history.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
500
A fair claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral.
What are rights?
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