Government
A government system in which one person, often kings or queens, rule over others.
What is Monarchy?
George Washington's wife and the former First Lady of the United States.
Who is Martha (Dandridge Custis) Washington?
Famous location in which the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is Boston Harbor?
First president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
Considered the turning point of the revolution.
What is The Battle of Saratoga?
This act taxed all legal documents, newspaper, licenses, and playing cards.
What is the stamp act?
Known for sewing the America flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
This is where the second continental Congress signed the declaration.
What is Independence Hall?
Was a famous inventor, printer and publisher, diplomat, and scientist.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Known for the shot known around the world.
What is The Battle of Lexington and Concord?
People who favored the side of Great Britain.
What are loyalists?
Women who followed their husbands and organized the camps and washed, cooked, fixed clothes, and provided medical help.
What are Camp Followers?
Used as an army barrack for soldiers during the revolutionary war, and is currently on Harvard's campus.
What is Massachusetts Hall?
A representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses and wrote the rough draft for the declaration of independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Battle famous for the song Battle of New Orleans, in which the British suffered heavy consequences of around 1,054 casualties.
What is The Battle of Bunker Hill?
An army trained at a local level comprised of volunteers.
What is a militia?
One of the first female authors in America and the first African American who has had literary work published.
Who is Phillis Wheately?
This room in the Independence Hall is where both the constitution and the declaration of independence were signed.
What is The Assembly Room?
Was an ambassador for Great Britain, a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, and later, president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
A battle in which Cornwallis's surrender causes the British parliament to make peace with America.
What is The Siege of Yorktown?
An alliance between groups or nations in which they govern themselves but work together.
What is a confederacy?
The female equivalent of Paul Revere who encouraged local militia to fight the British who had just attacked Danbury Connecticut, after riding twice as far as Paul Revere in the rain.
Who is Sybil Ludington?
This place is known as Washington's Headquarters during the time when the Continental Army occupied Valley Forge.
What is The Isaac Potts House?
Worked with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to convince the government of Louis XVI to bring supplies and aid to the Americans.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
A battle which allowed the British to occupy Philadelphia.
What is The Batlle of Brandywine?