Declaration of Indepence
Thomas Jefferson
What year was the Quartering Act?
1765
What year was the surrender of Yorktown?
1781
Who was a writer, postmaster, inventor and scientist?
Benjamin Franklin
Who was the King of England?
King George
How many parts are there?
5
What year was the Townshend Acts?
1767
What year was the Tea Act?
1773
Who led the 1st continental army and became the 1st U.S. President?
George Washington
Who was the 1st person to die in the war?
Crispus Attucks
When was it approved?
July 4th, 1776
What year was the 1st Continental Congress?
1774
What year was the Boston Massacre?
1770
Who was the female that brought food and water to the men and fired a cannon tool?
Molly Pitcher
Who was the 2nd U.S. president and helped write the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams
Where was it approved?
Philadelphia
What year was the Battle of Charleston?
1780
what year did benjamin franklin write the political cartoon- join or die?
1754
Who was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys in Vermont?
Ethan Allen
Who was the commander and Chief of the British Army?
Thomas Gage
What does the denunciation part of the declaration explain?
explains how the British government ignored their complaints
What year was the the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
What year was the Stamp Act?
1765
Who wrote about women's rights in her letters to her husband?
Abigaill Adams
Who was the American woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the army?
Deborah Sampson
What was the purpose?
To explain why the colonies needed to break away from British Rule
From what year to what year was the French and Indian War?
1756 to 1763
What year was the treaty of paris signed?
1783
Who wrote an article in the New York Journal in support of the Patroits cause and became a victorious leader in the Battle of Yorktown?
Alexander Hamilton
Who was a lawyer of Virginia who did most of the writing of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson