Characters and Composition
What musical was made about the American Revolution?
What is Hamilton?
This battle outside of Boston was technically a loss for the Americans, but resulted in heavy British losses.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This document is the reason why the US celebrates July 4th.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This word is what the American colonists used to break away from the British Empire.
What is a Revolution?
This method of writing is used to show how different events influence each other. Provide at least one example.
What is Cause and Effect Language?
What is so, because, due to, therefore, since, etc.?
During this battle soldiers weathered the frigid temperatures in Pennsylvania.
What is Valley Forge?
After taxes were raised on this import, the colonists decided to throw thousands of pounds of it into the sea.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
A person who supported the cause of freedom was called this.
What is a Patriot?
This tense of writing is used when an object or person is the subject of the sentence.
What is Passive Voice?
This fight was the first official battle of the American Revolution.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
The rally cry of the colonists against the high British taxes.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
This is what the U.S. was called before it became a country.
What was the Thirteen Colonies?
This man was the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
After this key battle, the French agreed to become an ally to the colonists.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
Some images of this conflict depict Crispus Attucks as the first casualty of the Revolutionary War.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The active decision by the colonists to not buy British products.
What is a boycott?
Name 2 of the tax laws that were forced on the American colonists.
What were the:
Townshend Acts
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
This key force allowed the Americans to keep Cornwallis trapped in 1781.
What is the French Navy?
The very last battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
America's last try at peace with Britain.
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
This governing body was in debt after the French and Indian War and created laws to tax the colonists.
What was British Parliament?