Causes of the American Revolution
This act taxed printed materials like newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This man was is concerned main author of the Declaration.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Women helped the war effort by doing this at home.
What is making clothes or running farms/businesses?
Some enslaved people were promised this if they fought for the British.
What is freedom?
Colonists who supported independence were called this.
What are Patriots?
Colonists protested “taxation without this.”
What is representation?
This famous phrase says all people are created equal and have rights.
What is “All men are created equal”?
This woman wrote a letter asking her husband to “remember the ladies.”
Who is Abigail Adams?
This side (British or Patriots) first offered freedom to enslaved people.
Who are the British?
Colonists loyal to Britain were called this.
What are Loyalists?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This date marks when the Declaration was adopted.
What is July 4, 1776?
Some women followed the army and did this job.
What is cooking, nursing, or washing (camp followers)?
This African American man became a spy for the Patriots.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
This war was fought between Britain and the American colonies.
What is the American Revolution?
These laws punished Boston after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The Declaration says people have the right to do this if the government is unfair.
What is overthrow/change the government?
This woman disguised herself as a man to fight in the war.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
Some African Americans fought in this famous early battle.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This Enlightenment idea influenced the Declaration (rights like life and liberty).
What are natural rights?
This document listed colonial complaints against the king.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This group approved the Declaration.
What is the Continental Congress?
Women’s contributions led to this idea about their role in the new nation.
What is Republican Motherhood?
After the war, many African Americans still did NOT gain this.
What is freedom/equal rights?
This document officially ended the war in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?