Historical Figures
The Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The first direct tax on the 13 colonies. Required colonists to pay for a stamp on all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Document written by Thomas Paine that made a strong case for political and economic freedom from Britain.
What is "Common Sense"?
Series of law passed by the British to promote mercantilism in the colonies.
What is the Navigation Acts?
Famous African killed in the Boston Massacre
This tax led to the famous Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
Members of the civilian volunteer militia of Massachusetts
What is Minutemen?
The idea that citizens should agree to be governed only when rulers and governments support their rights.
Area of the 13 Colonies that believed all children should be able to read the Bible.
What is the New England Colonies?
Frenchman who used his wealth and influence to support the Patriot cause
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This protest in December 1773, showed the colonists' spirit of rebellion.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Military strategy that uses swift hit-and-run tactics
What is Guerilla Warfare?
1st meeting in the colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about the British, organized by Samuel Adams.
What is the 1st Continental Congress?
This former slave is credited with killing Major John Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Who is Peter Salem?
Known as the "Swamp Fox". Used guerilla warfare to resist British forces in the South.
Who is Francis Marion?
The result of the Proclamation of 1763.
What is Banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mts?
The result of the French and Indian War.
What is France lost land claims in North America, Britain gains Canada and French lands East of the Mississippi?
Document written by Thomas Jefferson that officially separated the 13 Colonies from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The nickname for the first flag created to represent this first 13 States.
What is the Betsy Ross Flag?
The King of Great Britain during the American Revolution
Who is King George III?
Series of laws passed in 1774 designed to punish Boston.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
Name of the meeting that resulted in the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?