Maley Mal
Influential booklet that encouraged colonists to declare independence from Britian
Common Sense
Document in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain
Declaration of Independence
Group of delegates (representatives) that acted as the government for the American colonies
This idea states that colonial settlements must use the wealth accumulated by cash crops and trade to benefit the mother country.
Mercantilism
New England colonies were founded because of this idea
Religious freedom
What cash crop made Virginia the most powerful of the 13 colonies?
Tobacco
A Colonist who argued that the colonies should not separate from Britain
Loyalist
Someone that wanted to be free from British rule.
Patriot
The Proclamation of 1763
Who was the King of England during the American Revolution?
King George III
Which side did Natives Americans largely side with?
Britain
The final battle of the War for Independence was here
Yorktown
What camp did Washington show his leadership at that soldiers suffered from freezing temps, starvation, and disease?
Valley Forge
These two famous Patriots asked Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence
John Adams and Ben Franklin
What law required colonists to house and feed British soldiers?
Quartering Act
Who warned that the Redcoats (British army) was coming during the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Paul Revere
The area of North America that Britain and France fought over from 1754 to 1763
Ohio River Valley
This French aristocrat helped the colonies secure more funding/guns and ships from France.
Marquis de Lafayette
Samuel Adams and others formed this organization dedicated to fighting the Stamp Act and other forms of British taxation
the Sons of Liberty
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
He famously said in a speech in Virginia, "Give Me Liberty or Give me death!"
Patrick Henry
Representative from each colony met to discuss the Intolerable Acts but decided to try to work things out with King George
First Continental Congress
Name 2 allies of the Patriots.
France and Spain
What are the unalienable rights described in the Declaration of Independence?
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Famous saying that was a rallying call for the colonist when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain
"No taxation without representation"
This man led a rebellion that ended in the burning of the first successful English settlement in the Americas. What was the man and the name of the settlement?
Nathaniel Bacon; Jamestown
official ending of the War; peace agreement
Treaty of Paris
Who was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
George Washington
Three advantages that the Patriots had in the War for Independence
Home field, allies, a cause worth fighting for.
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics.
Maryland
stamp act; 1765
Regiment made up of African American patriot soldiers that accompanied Alexander Hamilton to Yorktown
First Rhode Island Regiment
Why did John Adams, despite not being a Loyalist, choose to represent British soldiers in the trial after the Boston Massacre?
He believed in a fair trial/fair justice system/rule of law.
Put the following English colonies in order of their founding. Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia
Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Georgia
Thomas Paine said that "society in all forms is a blessing, but government, even in its best form, is a _________ _______.
necessary evil
Three items the British placed taxes on in the passing of the Townshend Acts.
glass, lead, paint, tea, manufactured goods