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Breaking Up
Revolt, Revolt!
Primary Sources
War
War, continued
100
The King of Great Britain during this time
Who is King George?
100
The person who said this quote: 'We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately.'
Who is Ben Franklin?
100
Paul Revere's engraving of this event was used to stir up anti British feelings.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
An individual who supported independence from Great Britain was called this.
What is a Patriot?
100
The Continental Army was lead by this man.
Who is George Washington?
200
Colonists felt that if a government is not doing this, they have a right to abolish that government.
What is protecting their rights/serving their best interests?
200
This type of protest is a refusal to buy certain goods
What is a boycott?
200
Examples of these are diaries, newspapers, photographs, or pictures.
What are primary sources?
200
An individual who supported King George and was not in favor of breaking ties with Great Britain was called this.
What is a Loyalist?
200
One of the colonists' main allies during the war.
What is France?
300
The three main rights as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
300
A group who sometimes held violet protests against British policies
What is the Sons of Liberty?
300
A document written to establish the colonists' desire for freedom from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The treaty that formally ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
When the war spread here, Great Britain had to spread supplies and troops over a greater area.
What is the Frontier?
400
A written request sent by the colonists to King George to restore peace in the colonies.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
400
'I am not a Virginian but an American.' What does this quote mean?
Colonists must unite as one country to win independence. Colonists are beginning to see themselves as one nation.
400
The document written to convince colonists to support independence from Great Britain
What is Common Sense?
400
The French aristocrat who helped the Patriot cause.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
400
Because of their uniforms, British soldiers were called this.
What are Redcoats?
500
An economic reason Great Britain wanted the colonies to remain under its rule.
The British needed money to pay their debt from the French and Indian War, so they taxed the colonists.
500
After the Intolerable Acts were passed in this colony, the other American colonies rallied together in support of this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
500
The original copies of the Declaration of Independence sent out immediately to the colonies.
What are the Dunlap Broadsides?
500
The term used to describe more informal battle tactics that included ambushes, raids, and sneak attacks.
What is guerilla warfare?
500
The treaty that ended the Revolutionary war gave new boundaries to the United States. What were they?
Mississippi River to the west, Canada to the north, and Florida to the south.