Causes of the Revolutionary War
This act required all items (newspapers, books, letters, cards, and labels) with Royal Stamp on it were taxed
What is the Stamp Act?
Refusing to buy or trade with a specific country
What is an embargo?
What was the name for an event where many Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians and dumped 300 chests of tea in Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Named Commander and Chief of the Continental Army during the Second Continental Congress in 1775.
Who is George Washington?
The real name of the daughter of the Wahunsenaca Chief of Powhatan. She is credited with being an ambassador between her community and the English Settlers of Jamestown.
Who is Amonute (Pocahontas)?
Who is Mrs. Marissa?
I MEAN WHO IS MR. LUCAS?
The colonists were upset about the taxes because they didn't want "____________ without ____________!
what is taxation without representation?
This is a word for colonists who did not support the British and wanted freedom from another name for a Son of Liberty
Who is a patriot?
He was the King of England during the Revolutionary War and was often referred to by American colonists as a mad tyrant.
Who is King George III?
Focuses on the gaining of natural resources often through exploitative means (slave labor). Think Spain in the Greater Antilles (America) & Portugal in Africa.
What is a Plantation Colony?
What is Guerilla Warfare?
This specific act of the Coercive Acts forced American colonists to provide food and shelter for the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This is another word for British supporters royal to the Crown who lived in the colonies
Who are the loyalists?
This Battle during the American War of Independence was not only an American Victory but it showed the European rivals of the British empire that this war could be a huge problem for Britain. Empires like France and Prussia assisted Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This dude rode through the Massachusetts countryside in the middle of the night exclaiming, "The British are coming! The British are coming!"
2x: This young patriot filled the role of her father and gave a similar warning in the New York area riding out a distance three times longer than her counterpart.
Who is Paul Revere?
2x: Who is Sybil Ludington?
This Native American tribe is credited with helping the Pilgrim settlers with the establishment of their colony and helping them harvest their food. Gathered together for the first Thanksgiving.
2x: Name the cause of the War between the English and their First allies in America.
3x: Name the leader of the tribe that resisted the English and was called a savage raider.
Who are the Wampanoag tribe and King Chief Massasoit?
2x: What are settlers trespassing on Wampanoag lands despite their agreements?
3x: Who is Chief Metacomet son of Massasoit?
A military force that is made from the civilian population who bring their weapons and train like an army.
What is a militia?
This is the document in which the colonies declared their independence from Great Britain causing the American War for Independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, is used to promote a political goal.
2x: What event in the American Revolution is considered propaganda
3x: Who was the Son of Liberty from Massachusetts who wrote about this incident villanizing the British
What is Propaganda?
What is the Boston Massacre?
Who is Paul Revere?
During this campaign of the American War of Independence in Pennsylvania. The British had taken the American capital Philadelphia and had Washington facing a harsh winter.
What is the Battle Valley Forge?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence and the famous phrase "All men are created equal" except he was both a sexist and owned slaves.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The mysterious colony whose inhabitants had disappeared in America between 1585-1590?
What is the Roanoke colony?
At the Continental Congress, Founding Fathers attempted to reach King George III with this document seeking a peaceful solution to the American Revolution.
What is the Olive Branch Petition of 1775?
This war started in America and spread across the globe. It left Britain in financial ruin and justified their taxes on American colonists since they protected them from the Native Americans raiding them.
What is the French and Indian War?
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War.
Britain recognized America's independence, settled the war debt between the nations, established fishing/trading rights, and pushed the American Western border to the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
The name was given to the group of women who ran into the frontline to aid men with ammunition, loading cannons, and providing battle aid
What are Molly Pitchers?
This enlightenment thinker's pamphlet was a major inspiration for the American War of Independence.
2x:The Author
What is Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony and America. It was written by the men aboard the Mayflower, consisting of Separatist Puritans, adventurers, and merchants of the 102 passengers.
What is the Mayflower Compact of 1620?
An Indian Territory pact was made between the British Empire and Native American tribes that helped them win the French & Indian War. No colonist could settle West Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763 & The Royal Proclamation Line?
2x What was the name of the Fort that George Washington built near the French Fort Duquesne kicking off the French Indian War?
3x What territory were the British & French fighting over in America?
2x: What is Fort Necessity?
3x: What is the Ohio Territory?
What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation 1775?
This former African slave was a vital American agent working with French officer Marquis de Lafayette. He disguised himself as a runaway slave looking to work for the British. He was a double agent gathering inside information and reporting back to Lafayette and American intelligence.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
A Prussian military officer who aided the United States by playing a leading role in the American Revolutionary War reforming the Continental Army by training them into a disciplined and professional fighting force.
Who is Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Von Steuben
Often motivated by religious, political, and economic reasons. Many groups from our next study will show European immigrant traveling to Americas for a better life.
2x: This religious group of people often referred to as "Pilgrims" were extreme separatists of the Catholic Church?
2x: Who are the Puritans?
This tool from the scientific revolution allowed reading rates to go up and even allowed Enlightenment thinkers like Thomas Paine (Common Sense) to spread their ideas of freedom and government to the public.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?