Historical Figures
This was the author of Common Sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
This person warned that the British were coming.
Who was Paul Revere?
This is how the Intolerable Acts affected the American colonies.
This person was critical of the British and voiced their opinions in the House of Burgesses.
Who was Patrick Henry?
This was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
Who was Ethan Allen?
This is not to a major role that was played in the colonists eventually winning the American Revolution.
What was that they had immediate access to weapons and other supplies?
This is an example of how British Prime Minister George Grenville used the mercantile system.
What was that he increased the tax on imports into the colonies in order to pay for the cost of running the British navy?
This is the reason why it was important for women to take on the work of the men who were fighting in the revolution.
What was that the women needed to ensure the survival of their families and the troops?
This was an African American who served the Patriot cause.
Who was Wentworth Cheswell?
This person led soldiers into the Ohio River Valley in 1754.
Who was George Washington?
This was the motivation that most African American soldiers to fight in the Revolutionary War with the Patriots.
What was the hope that the war would also bring an end to slavery?
This event led to the first shots being fired at the battles of Lexington and Concord.
What was the attempt by the British to seize colonial military stores?
This is the reason that the British wanted to expand their control into the Ohio River Valley.
What was to gain access to the region's natural resources?
This person was the writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This was the Patriot spy who went behind British lines.
Who was Nathan Hale?
This was a major military difference the Continental and British armies.
What was that the British were classically trained while the Americans used unconventional methods?
This is how the Stamp Act contributed to the Boston Massacre.
What was that the colonists angered by British taxes took out their frustrations on British troops, which eventually led to them firing at the colonists?
This is how the capture of Fort Ticonderoga affected the fighting in Boston between the British and the Patriots?
What was that the British left once the cannons were positioned to fight on Boston?
This person proposed the Albany Plan of Union.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This person used their pen to spur colonists to action.
Who was Mercy Otic Warren?
This was the significant effect of the Treaty of Paris had on France.
What was that the French lost most of its territory and power in North America?
These actions by the British and Southern loyalists caused many colonists to side with the Patriots.
What was the carrying out of brutal attacks during the campaign in the Carolinas?
This is the reason why capturing Quebec was important to the British during the French and Indian War.
What was by gaining control of Quebec, the British would disrupt French supplies from reaching forts further north?