A | B |
Commander of the British forces; surrendered at Yorktown | Lord Cornwallis |
A tax, usually on imported goods | Tariff |
Said, "Give me liberty or give me death"; freedom is worth dying for; favored individual's rights | Patrick Henry |
Rights that all people are born with: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness | Unalienable Rights |
African-American who was the first to die in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
Brawl or fight between British Redcoats and Bostonians | Boston Massacre |
Sons of Liberty (disguised as Mohawks) boarded British ships and dumped tea as protest to Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |
Frenchman who brought troops and supplies to help Americans | Marquis de Lafayette |
During the first meeting they sent respectful petition to king, second meeting they drafted Declaration of Independence | First and Second Continental Congress |
Troops of voluntary citizens - soldiers and minutemen | Militia |
Slogan of colonial grievance due to paying $ without consent | "Taxation without Representation" |
Washington's starving, poorly equipped troops trained here during freezing winter | Valley Forge |
First battles of the American Revolution; the "Shot Heard Round the World" | Lexington and Concord |
King of England during the American Revolution | King George III |
Turning point in the American Revolution; the 1st time that it looked like the Americans would win | Battle of Saratoga |
America declares independence from Britain | July 4, 1776 |
Wrote "Common Sense" (people should rule themselves, not ruled by a king) & wrote "The Crisis" to encourage troops | Thomas Paine |
Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston | Samuel Adams |
Wrote the Declaration of Independence; Anti-Federalist | Thomas Jefferson |
Listed the reasons that the U.S. was officially overthrowing the British Rule | Declaration of Indpendence |
Treaty that ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris |
Last battleof the American Revolution | Battle of Yorktown |
Inventor, discoverer of electricity, negotiated peace treaty with France | Benjamin Franklin |
Commander of the American troops during the Revolution; 1st President | George Washington |