Important Dates
When was the "shot heard 'round the world" fired in Lexington, MA?
April 19, 1775
This American victory convinced France to support America in the war.
Saratoga
This surprising American victory on December 26, 1776 helped keep the American army together.
Battle of Trenton
This 1764 act by Parliament taxed imports from the West Indies and punished smugglers.
Sugar Act
He was responsible for negotiating an alliance between the United States and France in 1778.
Benjamin Franklin
December 16, 1773
Boston Tea Part
In 1780, General Benedict Arnold agreed to surrender this fort to the British.
West Point
This was where the first battle of the Revolution was fought.
Lexington, MA
This 1765 act imposed a tax on all illegal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
Stamp Act
He dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in 1775.
Henry Knox
March 5, 1770
Boston Massacre
This document encouraged Americans not to give up the fight when the war was going badly.
American Crisis
The British won this battle, but lost over a thousand men.
Battle of Breed's (Bunker) Hill
This 1767 act by Parliament taxed tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint.
Townshend Acts
He was the author of Common Sense and the American Crisis.
Thomas Paine
March 17, 1776
British evacuate Boston
This British law forced colonists to let British soldiers live in their homes.
Quartering Act
General Horatio Gates ended his military career by fleeing from this battle field in South Carolina.
Battle of Camden
This 1773 act forced colonists to buy this product only from the East India Company.
Tea Act
This Massachusetts attorney defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial and argued forcefully in the Continental Congress for American Independence.
John Adams
July 4, 1776
Signing of Declaration of Independence
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, captured this important British fort in 1775.
Ticonderoga
General Corn Wallis surrendered to American and French forces in this last major battle of the war.
Battle of Yorktown
Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
This southern militia officer, was nicknamed the Swamp Fox because of the guerilla tactics he used to harrass British troops.
Francis Marion