Protests
This group kept the colonists informed in each colony
What is the Committee of Correspondance?
He was chosen at the SECOND Continental Congress to lead the army
Who is George Washington?
The ‘shot heard round the world’ was fired here
What is Lexington?
A colonist who opposed the King and Parliament
What is a patriot?
This section in the Declaration of Independence means why the colonist wanted independence
What is the preamble?
The ship the Rhode Island colonists set on fire to protest
A law making assembly in Great Britain
What is Parliament?
The last battle of the American Revolution
What is Yorktown?
An industry in New England
What is fishing, the ocean, lumberjack, or ship building?
This document was signed on July 4th, 1776 and was written by Thomas Jefferson
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A law made for the people of Boston that included closing the Boston Harbor
What are the Intolerable Acts?
How women helped in the war
What is cooking, sewing, writing letters, firing weapons?
This battle was the turning point of the war for the colonists because the French joined into help
What is Saratoga?
The fertile land helped this industry in the south
What is cash crop?
Was written to the King as one last plea to allow colonists to have representation in Parliament.The King ignored it and stopped trade with the colonists.
What is the Olive Branch?
The reason the colonists resented the Stamp Act
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
A militia group ready in a moment’s notice
What is minutemen?
The best training took place at this battle
What is Valley Forge?
Wind power assisted this industry in the middle colonies
What are wheat mills?
This statement of rights listed these rights of the colonists
This is the result of the war and defines democracy aka the type of government colonists wanted
What is self government and a say in selecting your leaders?
Representatives from every colony, except one, that met in Philadelphia at this meeting
What is the First Continental Congress?
The hessians were captured at this battle
What is Trenton?
These two wanted religious freedom and the government not to be involved in religion
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in Rhode Island?
Was written by Thomas Paine to convince colonists to go to war and break away from Great Britain
What is Common Sense?