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Colonies/American Revolution Drill

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Early English document where King John gave some power to the baronsMagna Carta
The Virginia Company established the first representative government in the colonies in 1609House of Burgesses
From 1607 to 1609 only 60 of 900 colonists survived due to the swampy, disease infested locationJamestown
Year the French and Indian War ends1763
Document signed by Pilgrim men which provided guidelines for governing Plymouth Colony.Mayflower Compact
A British proclamation forbiding colonists to settle west of the Appalachian MountainsProclamation of 1763
Missions were founded in the southwest by…the Spanish
Set of laws established by PuritansFundamental Orders of Connecticut
British surrender after the final battle of the Revolutionary War. What year and place?1781 at Yorktown
Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"Patrick Henry
Year Declaration of Independence is written1776
Stamp Act passed (year)1765
Author of the Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson
Poem about the Battle of Concord (…And fired the shot heard round the world)Concord Hymn By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benjamin Franklin's plan to organize the colonies together to resist the French during the French and Indian WarAlbany Plan of Union
Ruler of Great Britain (England) during the period of the French and Indian War and the American RevolutionGeorge III
Patriot, Started Committees of Correspondence, led Boston's Sons of Liberty, statesman, attended the 1st Continental CongressSamuel Adams
Winter campgrounds of Washington's Army during winter of 1777-1778Valley Forge
Countries who became American allies during the revolutionFrance and Spain
Someone who supported the colonies in their attempt to win independence from Great BritainPatriot
Year French and Indian War ends1763
War begun in 1754 between colonists & British (and their Indian allies) and France (and their Indian allies)French and Indian War
Battle that became the turning point of the Revolutionary War because the American victory convinced France to enter the war as an ally.Battle of Saratoga
Printer, scientist, author, diplomat, statesman, inventor, attended the 2nd Continental Congress & the Constitutional ConventionBenjamin Franklin
Started the French & Indian War, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, Farewell Address recommended Isolationism as the best American foreign policyGeorge Washington
1783 Treaty that ends the American RevolutionTreaty of Paris
Newspapers in the colonies were successful at spreading word of British actions and unifying the colonists. It was considered important enough to be protected in the Bill of Rights asfreedom of the press
Americans win the Battle of Saratoga (year)1777
In 1770 British soldiers fired at unarmed civilians, killing 5 inBoston Massacre
A British proclamation forbiding colonists to settle west of the Appalachian MountainsProclamation of 1763
Act in 1765 that required a tax to be paid on all paper productsStamp Act
Reason for the American Revolutiontaxation without representation in Parliament
The year the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought1775


Teacher - Santa Fe ISD
Fritz Barnett Intermediate/Santa Fe Jr. High
Santa Fe, TX

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