American Leaders
Commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
A 1775 conflict between colonial minutemen and British soldiers attempting to take the colonists’ large store of arms; began the Revolutionary War.
What was the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Referred to as the Bloody Massacre.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The law did not let the colonists migrate west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the proclamation act of 1763?
They are supporters of King George III and Great Britain.
Who are the Loyalists?
An American patriot, writer, printer, and inventor.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The battle which was the turning point of the Revolution because after that win the French started giving us supplies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Colonists dumped over 340 tea chests in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This law taxed all printed materials except for books.
What is the Stamp Act?
He was the King of England from 1760 to 1820.
Who is King George III?
He was an American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride.
Who is Paul Revere?
British General Cornwallis was the surrendered.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
They organized the Continental Army, called the colonies to send troops, selected George Washington to lead the army, and appointed the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
This law was a punishment to the colonists because of the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Member of a milita during the American Revolution who could be ready to fight in a minute.
Who are minutemen?
Was a leader of the Sons of Liberty and defended colonial rights.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Washington and the troops were low on supplies. It was America’s first real effort to field a professional military against the British.
What was the Battle at Valley Forge?
The way the colonists acted to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
A law passed led to a famous event known as the Boston Tea Party.
What was the Tea Act?
The English Government.
What is Parliment?
English philosopher whose ideas influenced the founding fathers.
Who is John Locke?
The Continental Army captured 900 soldiers in this battle.
What was the Battle of Trenton?
In 1774, delegates from 12 colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts.
What was the First Continental Congress?
Laws that were passed which placed a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What was the Townsend Acts?
He held commands in the colonies throughout the duration of the war and was frequently George Washington’s battlefield counterpart.
Who is General Cornwallis?