Pre-War
Debt
1st?
Lexington and Concord
How did Washington and the Continental Army do on Long Island?
Very poorly
What year?
1776
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
To pay the debt England imposed?
taxes
2nd?
Fort Ticonderoga
With moral low and desertions high in December what did Washington decide to do?
Attack
Who wrote?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote Poor Richards Almanac
Ben Franklin
The Colonists said "No taxation without?
Representation
3rd?
Bunker and Breeds Hill
What River did he cross before defeating the Prussians at Princeton and Trenton?
The Delaware
What three rights do we have?
Life, liberty (freedom), and pursuit of happiness
Who said, "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Ben Franklin
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Dumping Tea into Boston Harbor
First major USA victory captured 5,000 British troops
Saratoga
What happened at Valley Forge?
Washington held the Army together during the winter.
Who gave us these rights?
God
Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patric Henry
What did the Proclamation of 1763 proclaim?
Colonists were not to pass west of the Appalachian Mountains
What battle ended the war?
Yorktown
Who betrayed Washington?
Benedict Arnold
First paragraph of the Declaration of Independence ?
Preamble
Who said, "I regret I have but one life to give my country."
Nathan Hale