People/Groups
Vocabulary
Declaration Of Independence
This and That
Essays
100
The Continental Army leader.
Who was George Washington?
100
A letter from the Patriots asking the king to repeal the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
100
Listed the colonists complaints and how they had tried to settle these differences peacefully.
What is the third and longest part of the Declaration?
100
A sudden change in government.
What is a revolution?
100
This army had more than over 40,000 soldiers.
What was a advantage of the British army?
200
Washington's soldiers-after he trained them.
Who are Continentals?
200
Congress formed a group to draw up and offical statement of independence.
What is the Declaration Comitee?
200
Listed the colonists main ideas about government, "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
What is the second part of the Declaration?
200
A hired soldier-Like Hessians from Germany.
What is a mercenarie?
200
In what document did the print say that USA was a new nation?
What is Treaty of Paris?
300
A patriot who wanted the colonists to start their own country and created a pamphlet called Common Sense which spoke out against the king.
Who was Thomas Paine?
300
Great victory in October 1777 that helped persude France to help the colonists.
What is Battle at Saratoga?
300
For all stated reasons, the 13 colonies were no longer a part of Britain.
What is the final part of the Declaration?
300
A colonist who still held respect for the king.
What is a loyalist?
300
This army had a disadvantage of limited training.
What is the Continentals?
400
One of the colonists who went to Britain to ask for representation and helped creat the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
French and Continentals surrounded and forced British to retreat.
What is the Victory at Yorktown?
400
Stated why the declaration was needed.
What is the Introduction of the Declaration?
400
A Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
This army had advantage of fighting on their "home turf".
What is the Continentals, again!
500
A leader of patriots in Virginia, wrote the document that would become the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
500
A religious group that was against any kind of war or battle.
What is the Quakers?
500
WERE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?! What was the longest part of the Declaration of Independence about?
The colonists complaints!!!
500
A pamphlet that spoke out against the king.
What is Common Sense?
500
A big big big big big big armmmmy.
What is the British army?
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