Causes of the Revolution
After the French and Indian War, this formal claim from King George III banned colonists from crossing the Appalachian Mountains and expanding west, which ticked off a whole bunch of colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
A system of government where citizens elect representatives to make laws and run the government for them.
What is representative government?
Founding Father and leader of the Continental Army who would later become the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The first battle of the American Revolution. "The shot heard 'round the world."
What is Lexington and Concord?
After the French and Indian War, this financial situation caused Great Britain to impose (force) a bunch of taxes on the colonists without their consent (permission), resulting in increased tension between colonists and the British government.
What is debt?
An old-timey word for housing soldiers and other military personnel.
What is quartering?
A revolutionary instigator, this author wrote the pamphlet titled Common Sense, in which he urged the colonists to become independent of Great Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This final battle of the American Revolution ended after the British General Cornwallis surrendered.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This tax made all paper products more expensive in the colonies by forcing colonists to use a specific stamp on any paper they used. All colonists were impacted by this act. This resulted in the colonists creating the famous chant: No taxation without representation!
What is the Stamp Act?
The personal freedoms and rights that everyone has. These stop the government from having too much control over your private life. These are what the colonists believed were violated by the British government when they weren't allowed to have representatives in Parliament.
What are civil liberties?
Often called the First Martyr of the American Revolution, this African-American sailor was the first person to die in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This document, signed on July 4th, 1776, listed grievances (complaints) against King George III and the British government before officially separating the colonies from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In this act of civil disobedience (peaceful protesting or disobeying of a law without hurting anyone) against the Tea Act, the Sons of Liberty dressed as natives and dumped chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
Founding Father, inventor, and diplomat, this bespectacled American convinced the French to become an ally of the Revolutionary cause.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This document, signed in the City of Love, officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Great Britain passed these laws to punish the Boston colonists by cutting off their trade, stopping their means to communicate with each other, and bringing back the Quartering Act so that redcoats could spy on the colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What is mercantilism?
This French-born American Revolution hero was only 19 when he started commanding armies. He supported the Americans by bringing supplies and soldiers.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
During this cold, harsh winter of 1777, General George Washington feared that his soldiers would starve to death or desert (flee). Instead, they pushed through the hardships and became a fierce army.
What is Valley Forge?
This economic system increased tension between the colonists and Great Britain by controlling colonial trade and forcing colonists to trade only with Great Britain.
What is mercantilism?
The short and simple way colonists used to describe how a government only has the power and right to rule if the people agree to it.
What is consent of the governed?
Who is John Paul Jones?
This battle is considered the turning point of the American Revolution because this American victory convinced France to become an ally.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?