Who is the person that warned the minutemen that the British were coming?
100
The Tea Act
What was the act that angered colonists because it taxed a necessary item tea?
100
Abigail Adams
Who was the wife of John Adams who encouraged him to add womens rights to the Declaration of Independence?
100
Leader of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
100
Lexington
Where was the first shots of the American Revolution fired?
200
"Give me Liberty or Give me Death."
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
Intolerable Acts
What were the Acts that were supposed to punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party?
200
The three items from the Declaration of rights that requested the British respect Colonists by allowing them the following...
What is Life, Liberty and Property?
200
Native Americans mainly sided with this group in the Revolutionary Wa.r
Who were the British?
200
Final battle of the Revolutionary War.
What was Yorktown?
300
Common Sense the booklet.
Who wrote the booklet that got so many Colonists to support the Revolution?
300
The First Continental Congress.
What was the meeting of colonies in Philadelphia that tried to make peace with England?
300
Patriots
What were colonists that chose to fight for independence from Great Britain called?
300
Frenchman nobleman who volunteered to assist the colonists with leadership and money. He became a major general in the Continental army.
Who was Lafayette?
300
Daring attack by Washington against the Hessians on Christmas day.
What was the battle of Trenton?
400
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
400
Boston Tea Party "Indians" who threw the tea in the harbor.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
400
The "shot heard 'round the world".
What is the first shots of the the Revolutionary War?
400
Scottish volunteer in the Continental navy who is quoted as saying, "I have not yet begun to fight."
Who is John Paul Jones?
400
Patriot victory over the British when Washington used fires as decoys to lure the British into a trap.
What was the Battle of Saratoga, New York.
500
John Adams
Who is the member of the First and Second Continental Congress that wanted everyone to vote for Independence?
500
The document signed by members of the Second Continental Congress that was presented to
King George III after the first battles of the Revolution.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
The Treaty of Paris
What is treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and gave the Colonists independence from Great Britain?
500
Leader of the British army. ( you have several choices)
Who was Charles Cornwallis or Horatio Gates?
500
The most difficult time for the Continental army because it lacked protection and supplies. Over 2000 soldiers died of starvation but no battles were fought.