People
Leader of Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Turning Point battle of the Revolution
Saratoga
This occurred after Congress printed more and more paper money during the war.
Inflation
When 5 Americans were killed by British soldiers after a dispute in March of 1770, what name did Paul Revere give the incident?
Boston Massacre
Who wrote Common Sense?
Thomas Paine
British King during the War
King George III
Final Battle of the Revolution
Yorktown
What is profiteering?
Illegally selling scarce goods for profit
How did the British respond to the Boston Tea Party? What laws did they pass?
Intolerable Acts
What European country joined the patriot side after the Battle of Saratoga?
France
Crispus Attucks
First shots were fired here
Lexington (and Concord)
What pamphlet was crucial in changing people's minds in favor of independence?
Common Sense
This placed a tax on a variety of printed items.
Stamp Act
At the end of the war, what was the western boundary of the new U.S.?
Mississippi River
Prussian Drillmaster who trained patriots on how to use bayonets, and fire and reload guns quickly.
Friederich Von Steuben
Washington launched a successful attack here on Christmas in 1776
Trenton
This is a belief in the equality of all people.
Egalitarianism
Placed duties (taxes) on items like paper, paint, lead, glass and tea.
Townshend Acts
Name of the treaty that ended the war (must include year)
Treaty of Paris 1783
British General who waved the white flag of surrender at Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis
The British occupied this city in the winter of 1777-78 while Washington and his troops camped in the woods.
Philadelphia
What did the colonies set up in 1772 to communicate with one another about British threats to their liberty?
Committees of Correspondence
How did the colonists respond to the Intolerable Acts?
Forming first continental congress
What was the name at the last ditch effort at peace that was written by Ben Franklin after the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Olive Branch Petition