Nathan Hale
This was Nathan Hale's profession.
What is a school teacher?
This was John Jay's profession.
What is a lawyer?
This is the religious group of people that Lydia's family belonged to.
What are the Quakers?
This is another word for a messenger.
What is a courier?
This man was the general of the Continental Army.
Who is General George Washington?
This is the college that Nathan Hale attended.
What is Yale College?
John Jay went to this country to try and get financial support for the Revolutionary War.
What is Spain?
General Howe took over and used this room in Lydia's home.
What is the parlor, sitting room, or living room?
These are the people who wanted to wanted independence from the King of England.
Who are Patriots?
The signing of this document sparked the Revolutionary War.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is the profession Nathan Hale pretended to be when he was spying on the British camp.
What is a school teacher?
Because John Jay was involved in politics, he created this to send secret messages.
What is a secret code?
Lydia removed these items from her son's coat to hide secret messages in them.
What are the fabric buttons?
These are the people who were devoted to the King of England.
Who are Loyalists?
This is the # of colonies that comprised America at the time of the Revolutionary War.
What is thirteen?
This is the method by which Nathan Hale was killed.
What is being hanged?
This was the kind of book John Jay used to create coded messages.
Lydia left the flour mill to pass on intelligence about the British army to this group.
What is the Continental Army/General Washington?
This is a word that describes information gathered about the enemy.
What is intelligence?
This is the phrase that colonists used that expressed their disapproval of King George's taxes.
What is, "No taxation without representation!"
These are the last words that Nathan Hale is remembered by.
What are, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."?
These are the three things on each page of the dictionary that John Jay used to create his secret code.
What are the page number, column letter, and word number?
This general had to turn around and retreat at Whitemarsh because the Continental Army was ready to attack back.
Who is General William Howe?
This is the act of spying on an enemy.
What is espionage?
This is the definition of the word "revolution."
What is a turning over or change in political government?