Why is he ACTIN' like this?
This was the first battle of the revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington?
This is a person who wants independence from England. This is a person who wants to remain under English rule.
What is a patriot? A loyalist?
This event was when colonists harassed British soldiers and the soldiers ended up shooting and killing several colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was written to formally announce the colonies separation from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Act that said that the colonists had to provide housing, food, and clothing for the British military.
What is the Quartering Act?
This battle was when the British went to look for guns, found none, and 400 militiamen engaged them and made them retreat.
What is the Battle of Concord?
This was a group who used fear and violence to protest England and encourage a revolution.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This was a strategy that was quick hit and run attacks; they disrupted British communication add supply lines.
What was guerilla warfare?
This affected the colonists by showing them how the king really was and forcing them to take sides in the revolution.
What is Common Sense?
Act that forced colonists to only buy British tea.
What is the Tea Act?
This was when the Patriots took position on top of a hill and killed many British. They only retreated because they ran out of ammo.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This person brought his own supplies, money, and ship to help the Patriots win the war.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This battle was when George Washington launched a night attack and was able to attack and leave before the British could overpower him.
What is the Battle of Princeton?
This person helped the Patriots by training the militia into a good army.
Who was Friedrich von Steuben?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This is the battle that the Patriots won because How did not follow orders and meet Burgoyne to help fight the Patriots.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This man led troops in guerilla warfare types of attacks.
Who is Francis Marion?
This battle was when the Hessians had partied too much the night before and the Patriots easily attacked and captured many of them.
What was the Battle of Trenton?
This is the important result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Act that said that the colonists had to follow any laws passed by Great Britain.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This battle was when the French and Patriot forces worked together to trap Cornwallis and the British. The British surrendered and the Patriots won the revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
These people were a group of German mercenaries who lost a battle because they partied too much the night before.
Who were the Hessians?
This is when colonists dressed up as natives and threw hundreds of chests of English tea into the ocean to protest.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This was what happened when British commanders tried to threaten people into fighting for the British instead of asking; a group of militia rode in and attacked the British and won.
What is the Battle of King's Mountain?