Battles
This is the battle where the very first shot of the American Revolution was fired.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Name the leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This was a person who was loyal to the British during the American Revolution.
What is a Loyalist?
This was the reason that the Bostonians threw chests of tea into the harbor and boycotted British goods.
What are taxes?
This is the holiday we celebrate today that falls on the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is the Fourth of July?
This is the battle is the very last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is Yorktown?
Name the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the name for the American government during this time that did not have any real power.
What is the Continental Congress?
This was the event where 5 American colonists were killed by British soldiers on the streets of Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was the lady who dressed up as a man in order to fight in the American Revolution.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
This is the battle fought on top of a hill where General Prescott says, "Don't fire 'till you see the whites of their eyes!"
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Name the British general who surrendered to the Americans at Yorktown.
Who is General Cornwallis?
This was the document that Thomas Jefferson wrote that declared the United States a free country.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This was the very cold place where many American soldiers died of starvation, sickness, and illness.
What is Valley Forge?
This is the disease many American soldiers caught when camping at Valley Forge.
What is pneumonia?
This is the battle where Benedict Arnold and his men defeat the British in New York. It is considered the turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Name the British philosopher who inspired Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This was a person who was hired for the American cause who sailed on private ships outfitted with weapons?
What is a privateer?
This was the reason why the British wanted to capture the South so badly.
What are port cities?
This was the colony that raised an all African-American militia.
What is Rhode Island?
This is the battle where Washington crossed the Delaware River and attacked the British on Christmas.
What is the Battle of Trenton and Princeton?
Name the American general who betrayed George Washington and joined the British.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
These were the mercenaries hired by the British to fight during the American Revolution.
Who were the Hessians (Germans)?
This was the treaty that ended the war between Britain and the United States.
This was the foreign war that came out of the American Revolution where the monarchy was killed by guillotine as were many other people loyal to them.
What is the French Revolution?