Events & Dates
The First Continental Congress met in this year.
Answer: What is 1774?
The most powerful voice of the Great Awakening.
Answer: Who was George Whitefield?
What denomination was founded by John and Charles Wesley?
Answer: What is Methodism?
The prime minister who passed the Intolerable Acts.
Answer: Who was Charles Townshend?
How did the Great Awakening convince Americans of the need for political freedom?
Answer: They realized political freedom was necessary for religious freedom.
The French fort repelled by George Washington.
Answer: What was Fort Duquesne?
The Boston Tea Party took place in this year.
Answer: What is 1773?
The first black female writer in America.
Answer: Who was Phillis Wheatley?
The significance of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Answer: What was the start of the War for Independence?
What was the function of the Stamp Act?
Answer: What required all publications and legal documents to be taxed by stamps?
What nation received Florida in the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
Answer: What is Spain?
The full date of the start of the War for Independence.
Answer: What is April 19, 1775?
The Second Continental Congress met in this year.
Answer: What is 1775?
Helped lead a Stamp Act protest in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Answer: Who was John Adams?
What town did Washington capture from the Hessians on Christmas night, 1776?
Answer: What is Trenton?
Which act was considered one of the Intolerable Acts, though not originally listed among them?
Answer: What was the Quebec Act?
How did the Albany Plan differ from the Dominion of New England?
Answer: The Albany Plan was never approved; the Dominion was forced on the colonies.
The full date for the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Answer: What is July 4, 1776?
The Battle of Yorktown occurred in this year.
Answer: What is 1781?
Missionary to the Native Americans.
Answer: Who was David Brainerd?
What battle is remembered as the turning point in the War for Independence?
Answer: What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Which act required colonists to house British soldiers?
Answer: What was the Quartering Act?
What grievance against King George III does “He has refused his Assent to Laws…” illustrate?
Answer: That he had vetoed colonial laws.
The French general who helped at the Battle of Yorktown.
Answer: Who was Comte de Rochambeau?
The Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence, was signed in this year.
Answer: What is 1783?
British statesman from Ireland who defended the American colonies.
Answer: Who was Edmund Burke?
After losing Philadelphia, Washington’s army camped here in the winter.
Answer: What is Valley Forge?
The group that founded the Sons of Liberty.
Answer: Who was Samuel Adams?
Which man was known as the “most famous sermon in American history”?
Answer: Who was Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God)?
The essay topic: Describe three fundamental differences between Great Britain and her colonies that encouraged independence.
Answer: Government, religion, and economic independence (students expand).