THIS PERSON INSPIRED PATRIOTS WHEN HE SPOKE AGAINST TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BY SAYING, “GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!”
WHAT IS PATRICK HENRY?
100
THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND PARLIAMENT WOULD NOT LET REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COLONIES HELP MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE COLONIES. THE COLONISTS CALLED THIS…
WHAT IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION?
100
THIS IS WHAT COLONISTS WERE CALLED WHO REMAINED LOYAL TO ENGLAND AND WOULD NOT FIGHT AGAINST THE “MOTHER COUNTRY”
WHAT ARE LOYALISTS?
100
THIS PERSON PROVIDED MILITARY LEADERSHIP BY SERVING AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
WHO IS GEORGE WASHINGTON?
100
IN 1773, A GROUP OF PATRIOTS IN BOSTON DISGUISED AS INDIANS SNEAKED ONTO A BRITISH SHIP LOADED WITH TEA & THREW THE TEA OVERBOARD
WHAT IS THE BOSTON TEA PARTY?
200
THIS PERSON PROVIDED MILITARY LEADERSHIP & REALIZED IF HE ACTED BRAVELY, HIS TROOPS WOULD ACT BRAVELY
WHAT IS GEORGE WASHINGTON?
200
BRITAIN TAXED THE COLONIES TO PAY FOR THIS WAR WHICH ENDED IN 1763
WHAT IS THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR?
200
THIS IS THE POSITION OF COLONISTS WHO REFUSED TO TAKE SIDES IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
WHAT IS NEUTRAL?
200
THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE TOOK ON MORE RESPONSIBILITIES BY RUNNING PLANTATIONS & BUSINESSES, NURSING SICK & WOUNDED SOLDIERS, & MADE UNIFORMS FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
WHO ARE WOMEN?
200
THE BRITISH ARMY SURRENDERED AT THIS IMPORTANT BATTLE IN VIRGINIA
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN?
300
THIS PERSON EARNED HIS FREEDOM AS A REWARD AFTER THE WAR FOR SERVING AS A SPY FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
WHO IS JAMES ARMISTEAD LAFAYETTE?
300
BRITAIN PASSED THIS TAX ON PAPER, GLASS, PAINT, AND TEA
WHAT IS THE TOWNSHEND ACT?
300
THIS IS WHAT AMERICAN COLONISTS WERE CALLED WHO SUPPORTED THE CAUSE FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN AND WERE WILLING TO FIGHT
WHAT ARE PATRIOTS?
300
THIS PERSON RODE ON HORSEBACK THROUGH THE BACKWOODS OF VA TO WARN THOMAS JEFFERSON THAT THE BRITISH WERE COMING TO ARREST HIM & MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
WHO IS JACK JOUETT?
300
THIS WAS THE 1ST LAND BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FOUGHT IN VIRGINIA
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF GREAT BRIDGE?
400
THIS PERSON PROVIDED POLITICAL LEADERSHIP BY EXPRESSING THE REASONS FOR COLONIAL INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
WHO IS THOMAS JEFFERSON?
400
THIS KING WOULD NOT LISTEN TO THE CONCERNS OF THE COLONISTS
WHAT IS KING GEORGE III?
400
THIS MEANS PERMITTED BY LAW TO RULE OR MAKE DECISIONS
WHAT IS LEGAL AUTHORITY?
400
THIS BRITISH GENERAL REFUSED TO ATTEND THE SURRENDER CEREMONY AT YORKTOWN BECAUSE HE CLAIMED TO BE SICK
WHO IS GENERAL CORNWALLIS?
400
THE VICTORY AT YORKTOWN WAS IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN COLONIES BECAUSE IT ENDED THE WAR AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES WERE NOW FREE TO DO THIS
WHAT IS MAKE THEIR OWN LAWS OR GOVERNMENT?
500
THE COUNTRY THAT CAME ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO ASSIST THE COLONISTS/PATRIOTS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
WHO ARE THE FRENCH?
500
THE COLONIES HAD NO REPRESENTATION IN THIS BRITISH LAW-MAKING BODY
WHAT IS PARLIAMENT?
500
THIS IS THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE EXPRESSED BY AN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE
WHAT IS REPRESENTATION?
500
MANY AMERICAN INDIANS FOUGHT ALONGSIDE ______ IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
WHAT IS BOTH THE PATRIOTS AND THE BRITISH?
500
THE AMERICAN VICTORY AT GREAT BRIDGE FORCED THE BRITISH COLONIAL GOVERNOR TO FLEE THE CITY OF____