Road to War
First battles of the war; showed colonists would fight back
What is Lexington and Concord?
Groups left out of the Declaration
Who are women, enslaved people, Native Americans, poor colonists? Name two
What general initially did not want free or enslaved blacks to fight?
Who is George Washington?
Treaty that ended the war
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Country that helped the Patriots win the war
What is France?
Closed Boston Harbor, limited self-government, quartering troops, punished Massachusetts
What are the Intolerable Acts
The main author
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Document that offered a pardon for the enslaved who turned themselves.
What is the Virginia Declaration?
Side who won the majority of the battles
Who are the British?
Battle that was the biggest turning point in the war
What is Saratoga?
Pamphlet persuading colonists to support the war in plain emotional language
What is Common Sense?
What are three unalienable rights?
What are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Royal Governor who offered freedom to any enslaved person who joined the British army
Who is Lord Dunmore?
George Washington's winter training camp near Philadelphia
What is Valley Forge
Battle that let to the British occupying Philadelphia
What is the Battle of the Brandywine?
Event that led to Great Britain levying harsher punishments on the colonies
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Crime that was being committed by signing
What is treason?
State that sent an all black fighting unit into the war
What is Rhode Island?
French General who helped win the last battle
Who is Rochambeau?
Battle that won the war
What is the Battle at Yorktown?
Sam Adam, John Hancock and Paul Revere were members of this rebel group.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
Another word for complaints that were listed
What are grievances?
First black casualty in the war
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Ambassador to France during the Revolution
General who surrendered to end the war
Who is Cornwallis?