Battles
What battle ended the Revolutionary War?
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
How did Great Britain raise money to pay off their war debt from the French and Indian War?
What is tax the colonists?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The name of the land that the British got after winning the French and Indian War
What is the Ohio River Valley?
What was the name of the battle where the first shot of the American Revolution were fired?
What is the Battle of Lexington?
What did the Stamp Act tax?
What are all paper goods?
What is 1776?
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
What is a declaration from the King of England that said the colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Why was the Battle of Saratoga the turning point of the American Revolution?
What is it was the first time the French helped the Colonists?
– Passed a series of laws in response to the Boston Tea Party
– Passed the a law that allowed for the quartering of troops in private homes
– Contributed to the calling of the First Continental Congress
Which act included all of the above?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What was the title of the document that recognized the colonies being independent from Britain?
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Why did Great Britain issue the Proclamation of 1763?
What is because Native Americans lived there and they wanted peace with them?
What was the name of the group of men who fought at the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga? (we stole the cannons here)
Who are the Green Mountain Boys?
What do the Stamp Act and the Townshend Act have in common?
What is they both lead to the Revolutionary War?
What was the name of the pamphlet that Thomas Paine wrote?
What is Common Sense?
John Locke had the idea that when people were born, the had rights that no one can take away. What are these rights called?
What are Natural Rights?
Put these events in chronological order:
Battle of Yorktown, Battle of Saratoga, Declaration of Independence, Battles of Lexington and Concord.
What is
Battles of Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown.
What was the MAIN reason the colonists started to boycott?
What is taxation without representation?
During the 17th and 18th centuries, England neglected to control the 13 Colonies. Why did this later become a problem?
Because the Colonies got use to being independent and set up representative governments. Then England began to start controlling them.
Why were Montesquieu and Locke were important people when forming representative government in the colonies?
What is many of their ideas influenced colonial leaders?