What is money a government collects from its people?
tax
100
The first shots of the American Revolution was here...
Lexington and Concord
100
I wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
100
This act taxed colonists on all newspapers and other papers sold in the 13 colonies.
Stamp Act
200
People who remained loyal to the British government
Loyalists
200
This battle is called the turning point of the American Revolution
Saratoga
200
I was an African American Patriot who fought against Britain in the American Revolution
James Forten
200
This document said that the 13 colonies were now "free and independent states"
The Declaration of Independence
300
Britain's lawmaking body
Parliament
300
This was the last major battle of the American Revolution
Yorktown
300
I helped the war effort by warning the colonists that British troops were coming!
Sybil Ludington
300
I commanded West Point, but ultimately I betrayed the colonists by secretly accepting money from the British so that they could capture West Point
Benedict Arnold
400
Colonists who supported freedom from Britain
Patriots
400
This battle took place on Lake Champlain. The British had captured this fort from the French in the French and Indian War. Now, the Patriots wanted to take it from the British.
Fort Ticonderoga
400
I set a field of wheat on fire so that the British would not be able to use food from my family's farm
Catherine Schuyler
400
The year that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
1776
500
A meeting of the leaders from the 13 colonies in Philadelphia in 1775.
Continental Congress
500
This battle took place near what is now 125th Street in Manhattan
Harlem Heights
500
I led an Iroquois army to help the British try to capture New York
Joseph Brant
500
I was a spy on Long Island who joined the Culper Spy Ring. I actually sent secret spy messages through my laundry!