American Revolution 1
He wrote "Common Sense."
Who is Thomas Paine
A conflict in which five men died.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The last colony to join the revolution.
What is Georgia?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The British soldiers were easy to spot because of this color.
What is red?
The Hessians were called this.
What is mercenaries?
The commander of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
Colonists who supported the British.
What are Loyalists?
Men who threw tea into Boston Harbor were dressed like this.
What in Indians?
The patriots owed much of their success on the seas to this man.
Who is John Paul Jones?
This man helped to establish the Committees of Correspondence.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This is another name for the Loyalists.
What is Tories?
A Patriot that helped to negotiate the Treaty of Paris.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The nationality of George Washington.
What is American?
This act required colonists to pay a tax on paper items.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the city where the First Continental Congress was held.
What is Philadelphia?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This group of delegates from the colonies, authorized the Massachusetts militia to become the Continental Army.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
These are the unalienable Rights stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
This delegate chose to write his name so big on the Declaration of Independence that King George would not miss it.
Who is John Hancock?
Many colonists believed that this company would put them out of business.
What is the British East India Company?
"But as for me, give me liberty or give me death". Who made this famous quote?
Who was Patrick Henry?
In which battle were the militia warned to "not shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The winter spent in this place was full of suffering and courage.
What is Valley Forge?
Finish this statement from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self, evident, that all men are ____________ __________.
What is "created equal?