Vocabulary
This is a small army made up of ordinary citizens who are trained to fight in an emergency.
What is a militia?
This country GAINED territory after the French and Indian War.
What is Great Britain?
Patrick Henry gave this famous quote that said "Give me ______ or give me ______".
What is "Give me liberty or give me death"?
This was the main reason Colonists were upset about the Stamp Act.
What is having no representatives to vote on the tax?
This is Baby Yoda's actual name according to the show The Mandolorian.
Who is Grogu?
This is the name for a pamphlet published in 1776 that persuaded many American colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
These are the colonies that the Continental Army was composed of.
What is all of them?
This is the main goal of the FIRST Continental Congress.
What is to find a solution to the conflicts with Great Britain?
These are the two the places where it became clear the colonists were willing to fight for the right to govern themselves.
Where is Lexington and Concord?
Who are the Lakers?
These are rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law.
What is natural rights?
This best describes Nathaneal Greene's Southern strategy.
What is fight, lose, run away and fight again?
What is to explain why the colonies were separating from Great Britain?
This is the main effect that the pamphlet "Common Sense" had on the colonists.
What is persuading colonists that America should be independent?
This is the number of students in Chicago Park's 8th grade class.
What is 16?
This is a formal, written request made to an official person or organization
What is a petition?
What is 80,000.
This is the only colony that abstained from voting on the original Declaration of Independence on July 2.
What is New York?
This was considered by many colonists an "Act of Tyranny" and had to do with land disputes.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This is the date that the Presidential Inauguration happens every four years.
What is January 20th?
This is to express ideas or feelings in a way that is moving and well-spoken
What is eloquent?
This is the town that Cornwallis made his final stand and surrender at to bring about the end of the war.
What is Yorktown?
Who is Thomas Paine?
This person defended the British soldiers in court after they were put on trial for the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This musical artist is the only person to have had 10 consecutive albums hit number 1 on the charts.
Who is Eminem?