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Key Questions
100
He was a general appointed as the commander of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
100
This proved that Americans had mastered the formal battle tactics of the British.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
100
This ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
100
In the Declaration of Independence these include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
What is unalienable rights?
100
This is the reason that Africans in the South joined the British Army.
What is that they were not allowed to enlist in the army in the South, and the British promised them freedom?
200
He was the British general who surrendered at Yorktown and signaled Great Britain's defeat in the American Revolution.
Who is Lord Charles Cornwallis?
200
March 5, 1770, British troops fired on a crowd of colonists in this incident.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
This is the name of Thomas Paine’s popular pamphlet that sold 100,000 copies in three months.
What is Common Sense?
200
This was a secret society formed to oppose British policies.
What is Sons of Liberty?
200
During and after the War, many Americans saw a conflict between the ideal of liberty and this.
What is dependence on slavery?
300
This person authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
300
This organization was formed to protest the Stamp Act.
What is The Stamp Act Congress?
300
These permitted British officers to enter homes and businesses to search for smuggled goods.
What is Writs of Assistance?
300
At first, the Continental army was made of these instead of well-trained regulars.
What is militia?
300
The Revolution caused divisions among the American population in these ways.
What is between those who wanted independence, those who remained loyal to the King and those who did not choose a side?
400
He was a leader of the Sons of Liberty; angered by the presence of the British troops in the colonies.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
Following this, the French king, Louis XVI, publicly recognized American Independence.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
This is a trail into Kentucky that Daniel Boone helped build.
What is The Wilderness Road?
400
Congress encouraged these to attack British ships because the American navy was small and weak.
What is privateers?
400
It was possible for American Patriots to gain their independence from the powerful British Empire because of this.
What is their motivation, popular support, inspirational leadership, foreign allies, easier communication and transportation of supplies, and more troops in the end?
500
He was the Virginia leader who called for resistance to the Stamp Act and made a famous speech saying “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
British troops marched here to destroy weapons the colonists had stored there.
What is Concord?
500
This is a country that agrees to help another country to achieve a common goal.
What is an ally?
500
The purpose of this required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
500
Spain and France entered the American Revolution on the side of the Patriots because of this.
What is that France and Spain had been enemies with Britain for centuries, and joining the War would force Britain to spread its resources and would allow Spain to expand its empire?
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