People
I was appointed the commander of the Continental Army in 1775.
George Washington
Colonists wanted to settle here after the French and Indian War so they could farm the land and trade furs with American Indians.
Ohio River Valley
The Sons of Liberty dressed as indigenous people and dumped crates of tea into Boston Harbor during this event.
Boston Tea Party
Many Native American nations were this to the French during the French and Indian War.
Allies
In July of 1775, the delegates of the Second Continental Congress sent this to King George III to ask for his help in ending the conflict between the colonies and Great Britain.
Olive Branch Petition
I was an important leader of the Sons of Liberty, and I started the Committees of Correspondence.
Sam Adams
This fort in upstate New York supplied the cannons that saved Boston in March 1776.
Fort Ticonderoga
The British needed money and decided to impose new taxes on the American colonies after this long war ended in 1763.
Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, and William Dawes rode out of Boston on the night of April 18, 1775, to warn these men to be ready to fight the British regulars.
Minutemen
In 1765, Parliament created this tax that taxed anything printed on paper, such as contracts and marriage licenses.
Stamp Act
I defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre because I wanted to show Britain that the colonial courts were fair.
John Adams
The Second Continental Congress met in this city.
Philadephia
The Sons of Liberty used a picture drawn by Paul Revere of this event to convince colonists that British soldiers were dangerous.
Boston Massacre
The British were forced to do this to many of the tax laws they enacted because of the Colonists' protests and boycotts of British goods.
repeal
Parliament passed these laws in response to the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773
The Coercive Acts of 1774 (Intolerable Act)
I was one of the other riders who helped Paul Revere raise the alarm that the British were coming.
William Dawes
The Patriots didn’t win the battle at this place, but they showed the British that they could fight.
Breed's Hill (Bunker Hill)
Minutemen fired at British regulars from behind stone walls and trees as they made their way back to Boston after failing to destroy the Patriots’ supplies.
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The ___________________ of 1763 said British colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation
In 1767, after they repealed the Stamp Act, Parliament created these new taxes on goods such as tea, glass, lead, paints and paper
Townshend Act
I had a plan to unite the colonies in 1754 called the Albany Plan of Union.
Ben Franklin
George Washington was from this colony.
Virginia
Nine colonies sent delegates to this event in October 1765. They decided that only the colonial governments could tax the colonists.
Stamp Act Congress
Every colony except Georgia sent _____________________ when the First Continental Congress met to discuss the Intolerable Acts in Philadelphia in September 1774.
Delegates
On April 18, 1775, this British General sent soldiers to Concord, MA to destroy the Patriots' supply of gunpowder and cannons.
General Thomas Gage