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He was a general during the American Revolution and was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This war came before the American Revolution.
What is the French-Indian War?
These acts were made by British lawmakers as a punishment towards the American Colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
These group of people left England because they believed the church in England to be corrupt.
What are Puritans?
The month, day and year that the declaration of independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776.
Name one person who took part in writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, or Robert Livingston.
This battle in 1775 led to the revolution
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
A person who supported the cause of freedom was called this.
What is a Patriot?
A popular farming resource in the southern colonies.
What is cotton?
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
British monarch who taxed the American Colonists.
Who is King George III?
This battle was won by the British, but they had several losses.
What is the battle of Bunker Hill?
Common phrase used by American colonists when pointing out that they had no voting rights or voice in the British Empire but were still being heavily taxed.
Someone who is forced to work and is considered property.
What is a slave?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was a founding father.
Who is Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, or George Washington?
The last battle in the American revolution that took place in 1781.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Person who warned, "The British are coming, the British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
A person who came to the colonies to work off their debts and were let go after they had paid them.
What is an Indentured Servant?
He was the first man to die for the Revolution and he was African American.
Crispus Attucks
Person who said "Give me Liberty or give me death?"
Who is Patrick Henry?
The document that ended the war in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Name and describe one of the acts that raised taxes for the American Colonists.
Stamp Act: Placed a tax on all paper documents.
Quartering Act: stated that colonial authorities must provide food, water and quarters (housing) to British soldiers.
Sugar Act: Placed a tax on sugar.
The names of the original 13 colonies.
What is Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts (including Maine), New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island?
Who is Molly Pitcher?