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This patriot is credited with saying, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
This event occurred on December 16, 1773, when colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This act required colonists to provide living quarters for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
The first major battle outside Boston; colonists lost but proved they could fight the British, running out of gunpowder on the third assault.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Colonists who supported independence were called this.
Who are Patriots?
He rode to warn colonists that the British were marching to Lexington and Concord and also engraved an image of the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
Parliament’s punishment for the Boston Tea Party, which closed the port of Boston and strengthened the Quartering Act.
What are the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
This act placed a tax on printed materials like newspapers, contracts, and licenses.
What is the Stamp Act?
A turning point in the war, this battle convinced France to ally with the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The group organized by Samuel Adams to spread news and unify the colonies.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Delegates met here in 1774 to respond to the Intolerable Acts, issuing the Declaration of Rights and creating boycotts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This act taxed lead, glass, paint, paper, and tea, and allowed writs of assistance to search homes without a warrant.
What is the Townshend Acts?
Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night to surprise Hessians at this battle, followed by a victory at another NJ battle days later.
What are the Battles of Trenton and Princeton?
The treaty that ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This Founding Father wrote Common Sense, urging colonists to break away from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The famous “shot heard round the world” happened at this location.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This act extended Canada’s borders into the Ohio River Valley and suspended trial by jury there.
What is the Quebec Act?
Two southern victories — one militia, one Continental Army — that helped push Cornwallis out of the Carolinas.
What are the Battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain?
These German mercenaries fought for the British during the Revolution.
Who are Hessians?
She wrote to her husband during the Continental Congress, urging him to “Remember the Ladies.”
Who is Abigail Adams?
This battle marked the end of the American Revolution, when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington and French forces.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1765 colonial meeting protested “taxation without representation” and sent the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to Parliament.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
What are the Battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain?
What is Valley Forge?
Name one hardship Continental soldiers faced during the war.
Examples: lack of food, inadequate clothing, no blankets, low morale, unpaid or paid in worthless paper money, disease.