Our founding fathers and their successors
Around The 13 Colonies
Vocabulary
Brit, Colonist, or French dude?
Knick-knacks
100

He was a major key to the Americans winning the war.

(hint: He was our first president.)

Who is George Washington?

100

This was first Capital of America, where they signed the Declaration of Independence. (Hint: This was before Washington D.C.)

What is Philadelphia?

100

Continental Congress’s declaration that the colonies were free states and the British had no control over them. 

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

King Louis The 16th

Who is the French?

100

this is where most of most the battle of Bunker Hill was fought

What is Breeds Hill? 

200

the general who betrayed the Colonists

Who is Benedict Arnold?

200

This is the colony that Thomas Jefferson is from.

Where is Virginia?

200

The British king at the time of the American Revolution

Who was King George The III?

200

General Howe

Who are the British

200

this is the nickname for Loyalists

Who are the Tories?

300

He wrote most of The Declaration of Independence and lived in Virginia.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

the fort the Colonists took without firing a shot

What is fort Ticonderoga?

300

the british general who commanded troops in Charleston

Who is Lord Charles Cornwallis 

300

Thomas Paine

Who are the colonists?

300

the name of the people who lived in Virginia 

Who are the Virginians?

400

The general who said “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”.

Who is William Prescott?

400

the colony that the British took in 1780

Where is South Carolina?

400

A important battle in Massachusetts that gave the colonists hope even tho they lost.

What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?

400

Marquis de Lafayette 

Who are the French?

400

the day the Declaration of Independence was signed 

What is the 4th of July? 

500

He fought Cornwallis and was always the one to retreat  first.

Who is Nathaniel Greene?

500

the colony General Howe stayed in during the winter  

What is New York?

500

the day the war ended 

What is November 25, 1783?

500

General Howe

Who are the british?

500

this is what the Patriots thought the king was

What is a tyrant?