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| Part of the British objective, marching to Lexington, was to seize these two Americans. | Who are Sam Adams and John Hancock? |
| The battles of Lexington and Concord took place on this date (month, day, and year). | What is April 19, 1775? |
| Paul Revere, William Dawes, and this man tried to warn the colonists that the British were marching west. | Who is Samuel Prescott? |
| The battles of Lexington and Concord took place in this colony. | What is Massachusetts? |
| He was the British general (and governor) who ordered the British troops to march to Lexington and Concord. | Who is Thomas Gage? |
| He wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Independence. | Who is Thomas Jefferson? |
| In addition to Lyman Hall, and George Walton, he was the other delegate from Georgia who signed the Declaration of Independence. | Who was Button Gwinnett? |
| On June 7,1776, this Virginia delegate offered the resolution, “These united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states. | Who was Richard Henry Lee? |
| In Jefferson’s Declaration, all of the grievances are against this man. | Who is King George III ? |
| It was on this date (month, day and year) that the Continental Congress declared the colonies independent. | What is July 2, 1776? |
| This Bostonian radical helped organize the Committees of Correspondence in 1772 | Who is Sam Adams |
| This British ship was burned by a group of Rhode Islanders in 1772 | What is the Gaspee? |
| The 1773 Tea Act was passed to help this company. | What is the British East India Company? |
| The colonists who dumped the tea into Boston harbor were thinly disguised as these so-called savages | What are Indians? |
| The Intolerable Acts (to punish Boston and Massachusetts for the tea party) were also known by this name. | What were the Coercive Acts? |
| The battle of Saratoga took place in this state | What is New York? |
| Under the British plan to invade N.Y., this general was to head east through the Mohawk River valley. | Who was Barry St. Leger? |
| Under the British plan to invade N.Y., this general was supposed to head north up the Hudson River (he didn’t) | Who was William Howe? |
| This British general’s army was captured at Saratoga in 1777. | Who was John Burgoyne? |
| After the battle of Saratoga, the U.S. signed an alliance with this nation. | What is France? |
| Yorktown is in this state | What is Virginia? |
| He was the British general who was trapped and defeated at Yorktown. | Who was Cornwallis? |
| The battle of Yorktown took place during October of this year. | what is 1781 |
| Yorktown is on a peninsula, located between the James River and this river (that begins with a “y”) | What is the York River? |
| The British lost the battle of Yorktown partly because this nation controlled the sea, preventing the | What is France? |
| In addition to John Jay and John Adams, this Pennsylvanian helped negotiate the 1783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. | Who is Benjamin Franklin? |
| Under the Treaty of Paris, this river was the western border of the United States. | What is the Mississippi River? |
| One of the Intolerable Acts said that the port of this city was now closed. | What is Boston? |
| This 1775 battle actually took place on Breed’s Hill | What is the Battle of Bunker Hill? |
| In 1776, the British drove Washington’s army out of Manhattan, in this state. | What is New York? |
