People
He was known as the king of smugglers
John Hancock
This country closed off the port of New Orleans to the new United States.
Spain
Area of land fought over during the French and Indian War
Ohio Valley
He was beloved in Paris and even caused a fashion craze.
Ben Franklin
The "organizer of victory" in the French and Indian War.
William Pitt
Famed Silversmith who made an engraving of the Boston Massacre.
Paul Revere
He led Massachusetts farmers in an uprising designed to stop foreclosures.
Shays
Target of the Intolerable Acts
Boston
He was beloved in America and even donateed $200,000 of his own money to the Revolution.
LaFayette
The boastful prime minister who tried to get the Americans pay taxes on lead, paint, glass, and tea.
Townshend
Made a name for himself defending the soldiers in the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
This colony held out on ratification of the Articles until the other colonies surrendered their western land
Maryland
Site of the first shots of the American Revolution
Lexington
His navy hemmed in the British at Yorktown
de Grasse
The three men originally tasked with writing the Declaration of Independence.
Franklin, Adams, Jefferson
Prussian drillmaster who made Washington's army into a disciplined force.
Von Steuban
Site of the first, aborted attempt to revise the Articles.
Annapolis
The original French home of the "Cajun" people.
Acadia
The Royal Governor of Massachusetts who insisted on unloading the tea.
Thomas Hutchinson
Virginia governor who raised an army of slaves to fight for the British in the revolution.
Dunmore
Name the three men who negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1783
Site of the most significant battlefield of the French and Indian War.
Plains of Abraham
French general who died at the decisive battle of the French and Indian War
Montcalme
America's most famous sailor in the revolution who was rumored to have had an affair with Catherine the Great.
John Paul Jones