Main Figures
He was the commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington.
The war began with this battle.
What is the Battle of Lexington.
What year did the colonies declare independence from England?
A special tax placed on things like newspapers, legal papers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act.
France
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
The war also began with this battle. The name is also a type of grape.
What is the Battle of Concord.
What year was the Battle of Saratoga?
What is 1777.
A British law that allowed the East India Company to sell tea to colonists for less money than other merchants, but the colonists still had to pay a tax on it.
What is the Tea Act.
What was the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution?
What is The Treaty of Paris.
A major diplomat who secured the French support for America.
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
This battle was the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga.
What year was the Siege of Yorktown?
What is 1781.
American colonists, dressed as Native Americans, dumped chests of tea into Boston Harbor in 1773 to protest a British tax on tea.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
What was the name of the French Ally that helped George Washington?
Who was Marquis de Lafayette.
An American soldier and general who became one of the most infamous traitors in American history.
Who is Benedict Arnold.
France entered the the war during this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga.
What year was the start of the American Revolution?
What is 1775.
This act made colonial governments provide British soldiers with a place to live and supplies like food and fuel.
What is the Quartering Act.
What city was the Treaty of Paris signed in?
What is Paris.
He was the General of the British troops.
Who was General Cornwallis.
This battle ended the Revolution.
What is The Siege of Yorktown.
What year did the war end?
What is 1781.
The British passed these strict laws to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Act.
Name one US representative at the Treaty of Paris signing.
Who is Benjamin Franklin or John Jay or John Adams.