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| 6299603166 | First Continental Congress (1774) | All of the colonies except Georgia sent representatives to determine how the colonies should react to the threat to their rights and liberties (caused by Intolerable Acts) | 0 | |
| 6299603167 | Radicals (American Revolution) | Colonists that supported the revolution and Independence from Britian | 1 | |
| 6299603168 | Patrick Henry | Radical from Virginia; delegate at Continental Congress. "Give me liberty or give me death!" | 2 | |
| 6299603169 | Samuel Adams | Radical from Massachusetts; delegate at Continental Congress; started Committees of Correspondence | 3 | |
| 6299603170 | John Adams | Radical from Massachusetts; delegate at Continental Congress; acted as lawyer for British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre | 4 | |
| 6299603171 | George Washington | Moderate from Virginia; delegate at Continental Congress; position of respect in colonial army. He was tall | 5 | |
| 6299603172 | John Dickinson | Moderate from Pennsylvania; delegate at Continental Congress; writer of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" | 6 | |
| 6299603173 | Declaration fo Rights and Grievances | A petition to the king urging him to make right colonial grievances and restore colonial rights | 7 | |
| 6299603174 | Paul Revere | Warned militiamen that the British were coming along with William Dawes (Battle of Lexington and Concord) | 8 | |
| 6299603175 | Minutemen | Another word for the colonial militia | 9 | |
| 6299603176 | Lexington | British soldiers tried to seize colonial military supplies; 8 colonial minutemen were killed | 10 | |
| 6299603177 | Concord | British soldiers tried to destroy colonial military supplies; on the return to Boston, the British suffered 250 casualties when abushed by milita men | 11 | |
| 6299603178 | Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) | Americans lost to British, but British suffered heavy casualties in this first true battle of the war (June 17, 1775) | 12 | |
| 6299603179 | Second Continental Congress (1775) | (May 1775) Representatives adopted the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms and sent the Olive Branch Petition to the king | 13 | |
| 6299603180 | Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms | A letter to the world explaining why the colonies were rebelling and that it was necessary | 14 | |
| 6299603181 | Olive Branch Petition | (July 1775) Last ditch effort for peace; colonists pledged their loyalty and asked the king to go to Parliment and protect their colonial rights | 15 | |
| 6299603182 | Prohibitory Act (1775) | (1775) Declaration of the king in response to the Olive Brach Petition saying the colonies were in rebellion | 16 | |
| 6299603183 | Thomas Paine; Common Sense | (January 1776) Pamphlet that argued in clear, logical language that the colonies should break with Britain | 17 | |
| 6299603184 | Declaration of Independence | Written by Thomas Jefferson, ratified on July 4th 1776, declared colonial independence from Britian | 18 | |
| 6299603185 | Patriots | Most of this group came from New England or Virginia and wanted freedom for the colonies | 19 | |
| 6299603186 | Loyalists (Tories) | The majority of this group tended to be wealthy and conservative and many of the clergy and government officials were in this group; pro-British | 20 | |
| 6299603187 | Valley Forge | Washington's troops spent a harsh winter here after losing Philadelphia to the British (1777-1778) | 21 | |
| 6299603188 | Continentals | Paper money issued by Congress which was almost worthless due to inflation | 22 | |
| 6299603189 | Battle of Saratoga | (October 1777) Turning point of the war; American victory that led to the French joining the colonists in fighting the Revolution | 23 | |
| 6299603190 | King Louis | Decided to help the colonies succeed in their rebellion in order to weaken the British and hopefully regain territory lost during the French & Indian War | 24 | |
| 6299603191 | Battle of Yorktown | (1781) Last battle of the Revolutionary War; support from French helped a lot | 25 | |
| 6299603192 | Treaty of Paris (1783) | Treaty which stated that: 1. Britain would recognize the existence of the US 2. The Mississippi River would be the western border of the US 3. Americans would have fishing rights off the coast of Canada 4. Americans would pay debts owed to British merchants and honor Loyalist claims for property confiscated during the war | 26 |
