Major Events
An event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of American colonists.
What is The Boston Massacre?
The commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
An American patriot who made a daring midnight ride to warn of incoming British troops.
Who is Paul Revere?
The year of the Declaration of Independence's adoption.
What is 1776?
When the Sons of Liberty threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
The government's job and purpose.
What is to protect the rights of the people?
The British general whose surrender ended fighting during the American Revolution.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
The year of the Boston Massacre.
What is 1770?
The first armed conflict of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
The major author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Who the government gets its right to rule.
Who are the people?
A prominent patriot, member of the Sons of Liberty, and the rowdier cousin.
Who is Sam Adams?
The year of the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is 1775?
The battle and subsequent surrender that ended fighting during the American Revolution.
What is the Siege of Yorktown?
A major voice for American independence, a lawyer who represented the soldiers accused of firing on American colonists, and the less rowdy cousin.
Who is John Adams?
The right and duty of all people should a government not do its job.
What is to change the government?
A former slave who wrote plays and poetry in favor of American independence.
Who is Phylis Wheatley?
The year that fighting ends during the American Revolution.
What is 1781?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Framer of the Declaration of Independence and a diplomat who helped convince France to join America's fight against the British.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The four things said in the Declaration of Independence (Think, my last Name.)
What is Rights, Independence, Complaints, and Equality.
The author of Common Sense, the book that inspired the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The year the Treaty of Paris is signed.
What is 1783?