People
George Washington
Who fired the "Shot Heard Around the World"
Nobody Knows
This act was passed to tax Tea?
The Tea Act
Why was the Boston Massacre not really a Massacre?
The British were provoked and not planned
This Document said:
1. All men deserve certain rights
2. The problems that the king created
3. And announced its Independence
The Declaration of Independence
This person wanted to add Slavery as an issue when writing the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Where British Troops met Minutemen Militias on way to capture Colonists weapons and supplies. The British were met with Surprise attacks on the way home
Lexington and Concord
A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies
Stamp Act
On paper, the British advantages were better then the Patriots, how did the Patriots win the war?
Fighting for something
Help from France and Spain
British soldiers could care less
This document offered one last chance for peace to Britain, which the king crumpled it up and threw it away
The Olive Branch Petition
The King of England
King George the III
This war ultimately led to the Revolutionary War because the British placed many taxes on the Colonists to pay for the war
The French and Indian War
These acts placed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
The Townshend Act
This group, created by Sam Adams, was responsible for the Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty
This person created the famous "Boston Massacre" drawing that went into many newspapers, that enraged many Colonists
Paul Revere
This military person left France to help the Patriots defeat the British
Marquis de Lafayette
The place were the Patriots retreated to suffer a terrible winter and where many died
This Act was a result of the Boston Tea Party, which closed the Boston Harbor and made the Colonists responsible for paying back the damaged tea?
The Intolerable Acts
The name of the Battle, where General Cornwallis surrendered his British troops, causing to be the end of the war.
Battle of Yorktown
This person, President of the Continental Congress, wrote his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
This early Patriot said "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"
Patrick Henry
This Treaty(Year) ended the war with the British making the Colonists independent and gaining land to the Mississippi
Treaty of Paris (1783)
This act forced colonists to allow British Soldiers to stay in their homes.
The Quartering Act
What was a result of both the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress
Peace was offered
An army was created
Money funded for supplies
A Declaration was adopted
Thomas Paine wrote this Pamphlet which clearly explained why the Colonists should be independent from Britain
Common Sense