Battles
1st Battle of the War
SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD!!!
Lexington
First official tax/act on the colonies - was actually molasses!
Sugar Act
1st official casualty of the Boston Massacre - half Native American- half African American
Crispus Attucks
3 authors of the Declaration of Independence
Jefferson, Adams, Franklin
Give me liberty or give me death!!!!
Patrick Henry
Moral Victory for the Americans
HOWE DUMB CAN YOU BE???
Battle of Bunker Hill
Three Items taxed by the Stamp Act
Newspapers, Magazines, Playing cards. legal documents,paper
They attacked the HMS Dartmouth during the Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
German mercenaries at Battle of Trenton
Hessians
Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!!!
Col. Prescott
General Putnam
Christmas Invasion - GW crosses the Delaware and shocks the Hessians!!!!
Battle of Trenton
The Stamp Act Congress imposed this on all British Goods!
A Boycott
Britain imposed these on the colonists after the Tea Party
Coercive Acts/ Intolerable Acts
French aide-de-Camp to Washington at Valley Forge
Marquis de Lafayette
Our Country is safe!!!!
George Washington
Turning point of the War
Victory brings about an alliance with the French
Battle of Saratoga
The Townshend Act taxed the following (3)
Lead, paper, tea, paint, glass
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in this part of Boston
Charlestown
Prussian General who helped to train the Americans
Von Stuben
"The Regulars are out!!!"
Paul Revere
Last battle of the War
Cornwallis is trapped on a peninsula against French and Americans
Yorktown
Angry Bostonians did this to British tax collectors
Tar and Feather
The British officially leave Boston on this famous Day
Evacuation Day - March 17, 1776
She helped man the cannon at Monmouth after her husband was injured.
Molly Pitcher - Mary McCauley Hayes
" I regret that I have but one life to give for my country!"
Nathan Hale