Battles of the Revolution
"The Shot heard around the world"
The Battle of Lexington
Fought for Women's Rights by encouraging her husband.
Abigail Adams
What colonists were complaining about each time an act was passed and implemented. In other words, the reason they complained every time.
"No taxation without representation"
The name of the author and the title of a 79-page pamphlet that motivated colonists to break away from Great Britain.
Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"
Mountain Range west of the Proclamation of 1763
Appalachian Mountain Range
Victory American Patriot's had on the night of Christmas 1776 with George Washington.
Battle of Trenton
Created the first post office for the Continental Congress.
Ben Franklin
Act passed to stop colonists from smuggling (bringing in goods from other places).
Petition sent to King George III from the Continental Congress as an offering to make peace instead of war. Which later we discover George didn't even read.
Olive Branch Petition
Just like the Hessian's main goal for fighting, GB viewed colonists as a source of...
income/money
How many days were the battles of Lexington and Concord fought?
1 day
Was asked by the Continental Congress, more specifically John Adam's to write the first draft of a declaration for independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Act that fired everyone up including the Boston Mob, who later had an organized riot concerning these taxes on paper-goods.
The Stamp Act
The meaning of the "Join or Die" poster
Colonies must unite or be destroyed.
The only colony who did not enlist Africans in the Revolutionary War
South Carolina
After which battle did the French decide to join the war and why?
Battle of Saratoga because this victory showed the colonist's had a chance at winning the war.
Said "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" in his famous speech in reaction to the Stamp Act.
Patrick Henry
The Act that told Colonists Great Britain could make whatever laws they wanted to regardless how they felt about it.
Declaratory Act
What the Declaration of Independence called King George III, that in GB would be illegal.
Tyrant
Country that helped at the battle of Yorktown and provided weapons and supplies
France
Which battle was considered the final battle of the Revolution that determined the independence of the American colonists?
Was Washington's right-hand man that just wanted to fight the British.
Marquis De Lafayette
What event triggered GB to pass the Intolerable Acts?
Boston Tea Party
What Jon Jay, Ben Franklin, and John Adams got GB, and France to sign to end the war.
Treaty of Paris
Other than France, the colonists received aid from which other country?
Spain
war technique Washington as well as Lafayette used to fight larger British armies.
Guerrilla Warfare
Who met in 1774 in response to Britain's Act and laws passed in the colonies that included such members as John and Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, and George Washington?
First Continental Congress
What did colonies start to form after the passing of the Intolerable Acts?
Militias
propaganda
British forces started the first battle of Lexington and Concord because they received word from which type of colonist that the Patriots were storing weapons in Concord?
Loyalists