Causes of the Revolution
This act placed a tax on paper goods like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
The first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
He was the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This document declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This country became America’s most important ally.
What is France?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This famous rider warned colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
(Hint: 3rd President)
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Formally ended the Revolutionary War, recognizing U.S. independence in September 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Americans were fighting for this major goal.
What is independence?
Colonists protested taxation without this.
What is representation?
This battle was the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This king ruled Britain during the Revolution.
Who is King George III?
Name famous people who helped sign the Declaration of Independence.
(3 NAMES)
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, George Wythe, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Britain had the advantage of ______ in the beginning of the war.
What is professional training?
These laws punished Boston after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The final major battle of the Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This pamphlet encouraged colonists to support independence.
(Hint: In Sophia's War, her mother lied about having knowledge of this pamphlet.)
What is Common Sense?
A letter the Colonists wrote detailing the complaints against King George III.
What is a letter of grievance?
This country became the second ally for the Colonists.
Who is Spain?
This slogan showed colonial anger about British taxes.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This brutal winter camp tested the Continental Army.
What is Valley Forge?
The slave who helped spy on the British.
Who is James Armistead?
These are the three natural rights listed in the Declaration.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The two countries who became important allies for the British.
Who are the Hessian's (German Soldiers) and the Scot's (Scotland)?