Sour Patch Kids
Who is known as the "female Paul Revere?"
Who is Sybil Ludington
What are the three branches of government?
What is Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
required colonists to pay for tax stamps that had to be placed on newspapers, legal documents, and even playing cards.
What is Stamp Act?
The name the colonists gave to a British soldier because of the color of his uniform
What is Redcoat?
A well-traine volunteer soldier who was ready to fight against the British at a minute's notice
Who is a Minute Man?
Who took the place of their husband at the cannon after she carried water back and forth to the exhausted troops?
Who is Mary Ludwig Hayes
name of the 10 amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
placed a tax on sugar and molasses entering the colonies from non-British ports
What is Sugar Act?
A colonists who provided the British with military information
Who is a traitor?
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
Holds to unique honors; she was first woman to be pensioned by the Continental Congress and she was the only soldier of the American Revolution buried at the Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Who is Margaret Cochran Corbin?
What were the secret hiding spots called that were used to leave important information?
What is dead drop?
Boston Patriots disguised themselves as Indians and raided British shops that were in the harbor. The Patriots dumped cargoes of tea overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Wife of John Adams who correspondence gives a personal look at life during the American Revolution
Who is Abigail Adams?
Disguised herself as a man and joined the Fourth Massachusetts Reginment
Who is Deborah Samson?
Two parts of Congress
What is Senate and House of Representatives?
Prohibited American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is Proclamation of 1763?
Best known for his "midnight ride" before the Battle of Concord and Lexington
Who is Paul Revere?
Called the "Son of Thunder" because he gave so many stirring patriotic speeches
What is Patrick Henry?
What does the national bird stand for?
What is strength and courage?
Who is James Madison?
ordered colonists to supply British soldiers with living quarters and supplies
What is Quartering Act?
Who is Phillis Wheatly?
the first woman historian in the United States who wrote three volumes of history on the Revolution
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?