Revolutionary War Battles
This battle resulted after the colonists pushed the British back to Boston. The colonists couldn't fire until they saw the white of their eyes.
Battle of Bunker Hill
This act lowered the cost of tea, but it propped up British made tea instead of colonist made tea.
Tea Act
This term means someone who does not declare and side and stays out of a conflict.
Neutral
This event by the colonists angered the British and made them implement the Intolerable Acts.
Boston Tea Party
The French fought who in the French and Indian War?
Britain
This battle witnessed Washington and his army cross the Delaware River in a surprise attack.
Battle of Trenton
This act outlawed the smuggling of molasses and increased the overall price.
Sugar Act
This group of colonists sided with the British in the Revolutionary War.
Loyalists
This deadly event angered many of the colonists resulting in them increasing their numbers.
Boston Massacre
The Declaration of Independence was ratified on what date?
July 4, 1776
This battle ended with the French navy surrounding the British in a war ending moment.
Battle of Yorktown
This act placed a tax on almost all printed materials including newspapers, documents, and legal papers.
Stamp Act
This group of colonists sided with the revolutionaries during the war.
Patriots
This group of fighters were able to fight within a moments notice.
Minutemen
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
This battle heard the "shot heard round the world" and started the entire Revolutionary War
Lexington-Concord
This declaration by the British outlawed the colonists from traveling past the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
This term means a person or group that is hired to fight for another country.
Mercenary/Mercenaries
This was the fighting style used by the colonists against the British to surprise them.
Guerilla Warfare
This group created and approved the Declaration of Independence.
Continental Congress
This battle was the turning point of the war and a major colonist victory. The allies of the colonists agreed to fight after this battle.
Battle of Saratoga
Name two of the rules put in place against those in Boston after the Boston Tea Party.
1. Closed the Port
2. Quartered Soldiers
3. No Self Government
4. Tried in Britain
This group of Germans were hired by the British to fight in Trenton, New Jersey.
Hessians
This was the famous campsite used by Washington during the Winter of 1777 where many soldiers died from disease, cold, and starvation.
Valley Forge