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100This war increased the British presence in the colony and required

increased colonial taxes.

100

The French and Indian War!

200This incident in 1770

resulted in British soldiers firing on and

killing several American colonists in Boston .

200

The Boston Massacre

300This 1773 incident

resulted in 342 chests of British tea into a

harbor.

300

Boston Tea Party

400Name three of the acts

that Britain imposed on the colonists.

400Quartering Act

Stamp ActSugar Act

Intolerable ActTownshed Act

500This British

announcement forbade colonists from moving

west of the Appalachian Mountains into the Ohio

River Valley.

500

Proclamation of 1763

100This man was a hero in the French and Indian War and was made the

general of the Continental Army.

100

George Washington

200He invented the bifocals and

attended every important meeting of colonial unity (1st

and 2nd Continental Congress, Signing of D of I and Drafting

of Constitution).

200

Benjamin Franklin!

300

This cantankerous man was a lawyer, a drafter of the D of I and the third President of the United

States.

300John Adams

400He was only one of the three riders who spread the news that the British had arrived, but he is the

most famous

400Paul Revere

500This man was the author of Common Sense, who

said that a king who lived 3,000 miles away had no right to govern

the colonists

500

Thomas Paine

100This is one of the other names for men in the

Continental Army

100The Regulars

PatriotsRebels

Minutemen

200This was the first battle

of the Revolutionary War

200Lexington and

Concord

300This battle occurred on

Christmas night in 1776, after Washington and

his men crossed the Deleware River

300

The Battle of Trenton

400

This was the final battle of the war, where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington

400

The Battle of Yorktown

500

Known as the turning point of the war for the

Americans

500The Battle of Saratoga

100

This is the style of warfare used by the

militia.

100

Guerilla War

200

True or False?The militia were full time

soldiers

200False! They were part-time citizen

soldiers

300True or False?

The militia sometimes fought in formal battles

300True! They were often excellent marksmen!

400This man was also

known as the Swamp Fox

400Francis Marion

500 The militia did what to weaken British morale?

500Blow up supply linesAttack and retreat

Hide in swamps/forestsEnsure that they could

not live off the land

100

This man was probably the greatest leader of the war and undoubtedly a

reason for American victory

100

George Washington!

200

Name two US allies during the

Revolutionary War.

200

Spain

France

300Name two reasons why the Americans beat the

British

300• Patriots fought for lives and homes • 1/3 of all Americans supported the

war• Supplies and troops from foreign

allies• Defensive War

• More troops than British

400The Treaty of Paris was

signed where and in what year?

400

Paris, 1783

500Name the new

boundaries of the US as laid out in the Treaty of

Paris

500

Mississippi River to West, Canada to North, Florida to

South

100This document was

signed in 1776 to declare the colonists freedom

from Britain

100

The Declaration of Independence

200This group of men was

called to Philadelphia to act as the government

during the Revolutionary War

200

The Second Continental Congress

300Not all Americans favored the war.

Supporters were known as what, and proponents

were known as what?

300Patriots - Whigs

Loyalists - Tories

400What percent of

Americans supported the war?

4001/3or

33%

500This proposal was written

by Benjamin Franklin during the French and

Indian War, suggesting that the colonists ban together

(but it was rejected!)

500

The Albany Plan of Union