Causes
This causes the British to go deeply into debt.
The battle of Saratoga was considered a turning point because it did this.
What is convinced the French to help?
This describes the war tactics of the Continental Army.
What is surprise attacks?
Rich landowner, governors, and religious leaders were often these.
What are loyalists?
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was the explain why the colonists should be this.
What is free/independent?
This was written to protect the colonists from fights with Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The colonists lost this battle but gained confidence because they barely lost.
The British army preferred to fight in this way.
What is open battle?
These are people who act against their own country.
What are traitors?
True or False: The Declaration of Independence states that all men and women are created equal.
False
This lay made colonists provide housing and food for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This was the first battle of the war.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The Continental Army was more motivated to win because of this.
What is freedom/independence?
Thomas's Paine's Common Sense used simple language to do this.
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These were passed to punish the colonists of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
In this last major battle of the American Revolution, the French and Continental Army surrounded the British and fired on them for almost two weeks.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The Continental Army was made up of these.
What are volunteers?
Who is George Washington?
The Declaration states that all men have these three rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Which of these did NOT feed the anger that led to the Boston Massacre?
a) Stamp Act
b) Townsend Acts
c) Boston Tea Party
What is c?
What is the Battle of Trenton?
This was the name of the colonial militia.
Who are the minutement?
He was the leader of the British Army.
Who is Charles Cornwallis?
This is the longest section of the Declaration, and it lists the colonists' complaints.
What is the Bill of Indictment.