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Causes
Battles of the War
Famous People
The Declaration
Misc.
100
A direct tax on all paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Washington's surprise attack on Christmas.
What is the Battle of Trenton.
100
The General of the Continental Army.
What is George Washington?
100
A complaint.
What is a grievance?
100
The city of a massacre and massive tea protest before the war.
What is Boston?
200
Colonists must allow British soldiers to stay in their houses.
What is the Quartering Act.
200
Started when British soldiers went to arrest colonial leaders & take their weapons.
What is the Battle of Lexington & Concord.
200
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
What is Patrick Henry
200
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are given as examples of these.
What are Natural Rights?
200
Valley Forge
What is Washington's winter encampment?
300
The end of the French & Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
300
The final battle of the war, won with French aid.
What is Yorktown.
300
Writer of Common Sense & The American Crisis.
What is Thomas Paine.
300
The duty of the people if their government is unjust.
What is to get rid of that government and start over.
300
Hessians
What are German mercenaries?
400
Reasons the colonists were upset about the results of the French & Indian War.
What are increased taxes and restricting movement into the frontier.
400
The French officially joined the war after this battle.
What is Saratoga.
400
General of the British army.
What is William Howe.
400
Three of the grievances listed in the Declaration.
Answers will vary.
400
What ended the war, and who it was negotiated by.
What is the Treaty of Paris, negotiated by Benjamin Franklin.
500
Act passed by Britain in 1767 - & what it includes.
What are the Townsend Acts, taxing glass, lead, paints, paper & tea.
500
A battle in South Carolina that changed the minds of many civilians.
What is King's Mountain?
500
The British General who surrendered at Yorktown.
What is Charles Cornwallis.
500
He has abdicated Government here, by ...
waging war against us and declaring us out of his protection.
500
A major revolution just a few years later inspired by the American Revolution.
What is the French Revolution?