Important Figures
Leader of Great Britain
Who was King George III?
Group that boasted that they would be ready to fight in a minute’s notice.
Who were the minutmen?
This colony/state did not participate in the 1st Continental Congress
What is Georgia?
This put an end to the French & Indian War
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This Act gave the British East India Tea Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying taxes usually placed on tea.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
90,000 pounds of British East India Tea Company's tea is dumped into the harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
7 Year Conflict over land; Britain defeated France
What is the French & Indian War?
Leader of the Continental Army
Who was George Washington?
preventing supplies and reinforcements from reaching an opposing army
What is a blockade?
Christmas night of 1776 - Washington crosses the Delaware river and lands here.
What is Trenton, New Jersey?
This document gave Britain France's North American territory
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
Tax on newspapers, letters, legal writing, paper, etc.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
This army waged guerilla warfare
What is the Continental Army?
The “shot heard round the world” was fired in ________.
What is Lexington?
This British general was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown
Who was General Charles Cornwallis?
a type of fighting in which bands of soldiers appeared suddenly, struck their blows, and then disappeared
What is guerilla warfare?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This American document basically said: "We are never, ever getting back together!" with Britain and was published on July 4, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is the Quartering Act?
2,000 British soldiers fired up on and killed 5 colonists.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The ________ won the Battle of Bunker Hill, but at great cost.
Who are the British?
Group that protested the Acts and rioted in Boston
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
to approve (as in a legal document)
What is ratify?
Name the city and state (colony) where Sam Adams was from
What is Boston, Massachusetts
First Continental Congress's written appeal to King George III to stop oppressing the colonists and allow representation.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This was the 1st tax passed by the British in 1764 to help pay for the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
Name 3 famous writers of the Declaration of Independence
Who were Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams
What battle ended the American Revolution?
What is Yorktown?
This guy created an engraving of the Boston Massacre and famously rode throughout the Boston area proclaiming, "The British are coming! The British are coming!"
Who was Paul Revere?
"No taxation without representation!"
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Where Sophia's war took place and Washington had to retreat during the summer of 1776
What is (the Battle of) Long Island, New York?
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
This series of Acts closed the Boston Harbor until colonists paid for the tea they dumped AND sent the British military to Boston
What are the Intolerable Acts of 1774.
This founding father defended the British after the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
Turning point in the Revolutionary War; France decided to help America.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Creator of the "Join or Die" engraving
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
"The future of America is closely bound up with the future of all mankind."
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This battle took place in Virginia and the Continental Army laid siege to this city and completely surrounded it
What is Yorktown, Virigina?
This document inspired the Declaration of Independence
What is John Locke's Two Treatises of Government?
This act stated that Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
What is the Declaratory Act of 1766?
Marquis de Lafayette
Who is the French nobleman who brought a ship from France to help the patriot cause?
This battle was fought in the winter of 1777-1778 and the Continental Army dealt with many hardships
What is the Battle of Valley Forge?
Member of the House of Burgesses once said, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
Who was Patrick Henry?
"In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense;..."
Who was Thomas Paine?
Fort captured by British general Burgoyne
How many parts of the Declaration of Independence are there and what are they?
3: Preamble, List of Grievances, and the Resolution of Independence?
This tax created by this act applied only to imported goods; the tax was paid at the time the good entered the country.
What are the Townshend Acts of 1767?
Privateers did this at sea
What is capture more British vessels than the American navy?
This battle saw the British defeated in Vermont; it was supposed to help the British cut off New England from the rest of the colonies
What is the Battle of Saratoga?