French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was fought between the French and this country.
What is Great Britain
This founding father convinced the French to help the colonists after the Battle of Saratoga, in his electrifying way.
This event, in 1773, saw almost a million dollars of tea dumped in the harbor by the Sons of Liberty.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This individual authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Virginia battle, in 1781 is considered the last battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown.
The French and Indian War was fought over this river valley.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This Commander of the Continental Army was just a baby general during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
These 1767 acts prohibited assemblies in New York, and taxed imports to the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The idea of Unalienable Rights were based on the ideas of this man.
Who is John Locke?
This isn't technically a battle, unless you consider it a battle against the winter elements, but it put our men in fighting shape.
What is Winter in Valley Forge?
This British Secretary of State put Great Britain deep in debt trying to win the war at all costs.
Who is William Pitt?
This Prussian military leader trained the troops at Valley Forge.
Who is the Baron Von Steuben?
This 1765 act forced colonists to house and supply soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
These are rights given to you by birth and can't be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
These battles happened in 1775, before the Declaration of Independence.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
As a part of the Treaty of Paris, 1763, this country got the land east of the Mississippi River, Florida, and Canada.
This was the first casualty of the Revolutionary War.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
These acts, put in place after the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston Harbor and were a social and economic punishment to the colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
These were complaints of the colonists such as not housing soldiers and no taxation without representation.
What are grievances?
This Treaty ended the Revolutionary War, and gave independence to America.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783?
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This Frenchman was a Major General and also funded the colonists.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
This 1763 law stated that colonists could not travel west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Examples of this include Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
This battle was considered the turning point of the war and got the French on our side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?