Stirrings Of Rebellion Ideas Start Revolution Struggling Towards Saratoga Winning The War Who Am I?

The first armed conflict between redcoats and colonial minutemen happened here: 100

Lexington 100

The man who led the Sons of Liberty 200

Samuel Adams 200

The Sons of Liberty formed to protest the _____________ which was the first law that taxed the American colonists directly, rather than as a duties on imports 300

Stamp Act 300

The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 as a reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Name three provisions of the Intolerable Acts 400

Closed Boston Harbor, Martial law, Quartering Act 400

Give two reasons why Paul Revere is revered in US History 500

1. He created and printed the famous “Boston Massacre” engraving 2. He warned the minute-men at Lexington & Concord the British were coming 500

The author of Common Sense 100

Thomas Paine 100

Name the primary author of the Declaration of Independence AND The enlightenment thinker off which its ideas were based. 200

Thomas Jefferson & John Locke 200

What group created the Continental Army and appointed Washington as the Army’s leader 300

2 nd Continental Congress 300

The document which attempted to reconcile the relationship between Great Britain and The Colonies 400

Olive Branch Petition 400

The last military conflict in Massachusetts occurred here 500

Bunker/Breeds Hill 500

The German troops in control of Trenton 100

Hessians 100

This battle was fought 8 days after the Battle of Trenton 200

Battle of Princeton 200

Washington's first major defeat against the British 300

Battle of Long Island/ New York 300

The turning point battle during the war; and the reason why 400

The Battle of Saratoga; French are convinced to openly help the Americans 400

Washington’s defeat here led to the capture of the colonial capitol by General Howe Name the battle and the city 500

Brandywine & Philadelphia 500

Last major battle of the war 100

Yorktown 100

British officer who surrenders to end the war 200

Cornwallis 200

According to the Treaty of Paris, the western border of the US after the war 300

Mississippi River 300

What two foreign Generals came to assist the Continental Army and where were they from? 400

Lafayette (France) Von Stueben (Prussia) 400

Treaty of Paris (1783) officially ended the war and established American Independence. The famous delegates were: 500

John Adams, Ben Franklin, & John Jay 500

I ruled as the King of Great Britain during the American Revolution 100

King George III 100

I am known as the 1 st martyr of The Revolution because I was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre 200

Crispus Attucks 200

I led the British troops at the Battle of Long Island and conquered Philadelphia 300

General Howe 300

After the Stamp Act, as Prime Minister, I created new taxes on glass, lead, paint, and paper and named these acts after myself 400

Charles Townshend 400

In 1777 Horatio Gates surrounded my British Army, and I surrendered to him here *Name the person and location* 500

General Burgoyne at Saratoga 500