Vocabulary
This is a term that means owed money.
What is debt?
This leader crossed the Delaware River on the night of December 25th.
Who is Washington?
This event happen when the colonists disguised themselves, went on to a British ship, and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Great Britain passed this which put a tax on all paper products for the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is one way that women helped in the revolution.
What is cooked, carried water to, nursed, or made clothes for the soldiers?
What is pretended to be soldiers, wrote poetry about freedom, or wrote about women's rights?
This is a formal agreement of friendship between countries.
What is an alliance?
This man said, "I know not what what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
Shots were fired during this event after a large group of colonists threw snowballs and yelled are British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The King passed the Townsend Acts to tax the colonists again. Eventually, all the taxes were repealed except for the tax on this.
What is tea?
What is they were on their own land?
These are the names of people who strongly opposed Britain's actions.
Who are the Patriots?
This man is famous for letting the militias know that the British soldiers were coming to fight.
Who is Paul Revere?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In order to repeal the Stamp Act, the colonists formed this.
What is a congress?
African Americans decide to fight with either America or the British depending on this reason.
What is to gain freedom from slavery?
A piece a land that is put under this is controlled by the military.
What is martial law?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These are the three rights that Jefferson said people are born with in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Some colonists did this to anything that the British put a tax on in order to rebel
What is boycotted?
Some of these people sided with the British in order to for the colonists to stop taking their land.
Who is Native Americans?
This is the document ended the war and showed that Britain had finally accepted America's independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This man is known as the "Champion of Liberty."
Who is Samuel Adams?
The colonists crossed the Delaware River in order to capture this city.
What is Trenton?
This is why it wasn't fair for Great Britain's Parliament to tax the colonies.
What is the colonists had no representation in Parliament?
While settled in Valley Forge, some soldiers died from this.
What is disease, hunger, or the cold?