This group of representatives elected John Adams as its first president.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
100
The British Army were called this...
What is a Redcoat?
100
This group of citizens serve in times of war but are not full-time soldiers.
What is a militia?
100
This war was fought between the French and the British.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
This is the final battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
200
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
German mercenaries (fighters) who were paid by Britain to fight the Colonists.
Who are the Hessians?
200
The Second Continental Congress wrote this to the King of England asking him to stop the unfair laws.
What is a petition?
200
This is the country that helped the colonists win the Revolutionary War.
What is France?
200
General Howe's 3-pronged attack failed
He failed to have back-up troops
Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point of the war?
300
This man betrayed his country by spying for England.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
300
This is the term for Americans who supported the King of England.
What is a loyalist?
300
The Second Continental Congress wrote this breakup letter to the king of England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The country whose army in America were called "Redcoats."
What is England?
300
George Washington was a strong leader
The colonists had experience fighting during the French & Indian war
They knew the land that they fought on.
What is the strengths of the Americans during the war?
400
This man was one of the British commanders who was defeated by Washington at Saratoga.
What is General Howe?
400
The King of England rejected this from the Second Continental Congress asking him to stop the unfair laws.
What is a petition?
400
This person leads a branch of the military.
What is a commander?
400
Here, Ben Franklin was postmaster of the first post office in the United States.
What is Philadelphia?
400
They were well-trained
They had a powerful navy
They had money to pay the Hessians
What were the strengths of the British during the war?
500
Originally from Boston, he printed newspapers, invented the lightning rod, went to France to ask for their help, and was the first postmaster in the United States.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
The British commander of England's army would give this to the colonists if they supported the king.
What is a pardon?
500
For the colonists to declare themselves free of England's control.
Why did the Second Continental Congress write the Declaration of Independence?
500
The Declaration of Independence was written here.
What is Philadelphia?
500
The British fought the French over land in America
George Washington & colonists fought for the British
Americans were not fighting for their freedom
During the Revolutionary War, the French helped the Americans win the war.
How was the Revolutionary War different from the French & Indian War?