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This governing body helped unite the 13 colonies.
What was the Continental Congress?
Colonists who supported American independence and the Revolution.
Who were the Patriots?
General Cornwallis became trapped at this location in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
Taxes on imported goods like glass, paint, paper, tea and sugar that led colonist to boycott British goods.
What were the Townshend Acts?
Writer who published poems that parallel slavery and independence.
Who was Mercy Otis Warren?
A poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1863 reads "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown and opposed the Revolution.
Who were Loyalists or Tories?
This foreign nation allied to Americans that allowed them to keep Cornwallis trapped in 1781.
What is the French Navy?
Strict laws to punish the colonists for dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
What are Intolerable or Coercive Acts?
Writer who published the pamphlet "Common Sense".
Who was Thomas Paine?
George Washington and his troops spent a hard winter at this campsite in Pennsylvania.
What is Valley Forge?
Volunteers who became a militia and intercepted the British Red Coats in Concord Massachusetts.
What were the minutemen?
A treaty in which the British recognized the independence of the United States and the western border of the U.S. was now the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783?
This group supported freedom for the colonists and was led by men like Paul Revere.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
French General who assisted the Continental Army during the winter at Valley Forge.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This battle boosted Americans confidence that they could win major battles against the powerful British Forces and it stopped the British plan to split the colonies.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
The grievance from the Declaration of Independence that corresponds with the Constitution in that "Congress is given the power to raise and collect taxes."
What "Imposing taxes without our consent" or "No Taxation without Representation"?
The United States received land that extended to these areas in the North, South, and West as a result of the treaty that ended the American Revolution war.
What is land North to Canada, South to Florida, and West to the Mississippi?
Rights that the government cannot take away without just cause.
What are Unalienable Rights?
American politician who stated "Give me liberty or give me death."
Who was Patrick Henry?
Last battle of the American Revolution where Americans gained the victory and captured two of Britain's powerful generals.
What was the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia?
British attempt to reinforce control over the colonist and restrict their ability to move westward for farming and trade.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
This action was performed at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to keep the British from escaping.
What is a blockade?
This delegate from Virginia wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?