Created April 2011 from Janet Spencer's "Revolutionary War Bingo"
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| 160039215 | French and Indian War | British and French fought for control of North America; colonists joined Britain in hopes of moving west if they won. | |
| 160039216 | Proclamation of 1763 | British proclamation that stated that all land west of the Appalachians was reserved for Native Americans | |
| 160039217 | Sugar Act of 1764 | Lowered tax on molasses, but increased the fine for sumuggling | |
| 160039218 | Stamp Act of 1765 | Newspapers, documents, and other items made of paper had to have a stamp on it; buying a stamp was a form of taxation | |
| 160039219 | Townshend Duties (1767) | Taxed imported glass, paper, lead, paints, tea | |
| 160039220 | Tea Act | Parliament repealed all fo the taxes from the Townshend duties, but they refused to lift the tax on tea | |
| 160039221 | Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770, a mob of colonists bullied some Redcoats. The British soldiers opened fire and 5 colonists died. | |
| 160039222 | Boston Tea Party | December 16, 1773, 50 colonists dressed as Indians dumped 15,000 pounds of tea from 3 ships in the Boston Harbor as protest to the tea tax. | |
| 160039223 | Intolerable Acts | Boston's punishment for , the tea party; ended town meeting, took away the power of the MA assembly and closed the Boston Harbor. | |
| 160039224 | The First Continental Congress | in September and October of 1774, all of the colonies, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia to protest the Intolerable Acts. They dedided to stop trade with Britian. | |
| 160109406 | Whigs | A political position that favored independence from England. | |
| 160109407 | Tories | Those who preferred to keep England's control over the colonies. | |
| 160109408 | Minutemen | Common colonists who would stop their work and be in the battlefield "in a minute." | |
| 160109409 | Paul Revere | A Boston silversmith and Son of Liberty; he rode through the countryside on April 18, 1775 to warn that the British were coming. | |
| 160109410 | William Dawes | The second midnight rider who took a different route than Revere out of Boston. | |
| 160109411 | Dr. Samuel Prescott | He joined Dawes and Revere in Lexington. He was the only one of the three riders who made it into Concord to warn the people that the British were coming. | |
| 160109412 | Lexington & Concord | The sites of the first battles of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775) | |
| 160109413 | The Battle of Bunker Hill | The first major battle of the war; the colonists protected Breed's Hill as the British marched up to the attack. The colonists finally retreated when they ran out of ammunition; the British lost many soldiers. | |
| 160109414 | Siege of Boston | General Washington brought cannons to the hills surrounding Boston. General Howe and his troops were forced to leave the city, and 9,000 British soldiers peacefull sailed away to Canada. | |
| 160109415 | Common Sense | A pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, which convinced may colonists that independence from England was the best choice. | |
| 160109416 | Second Continental Congress | Summer of 1776 - Delegates from all colonies met in the Old State House in Philadelphia to plan the war, decide if the colonists should declare independence, and eventually they voted to write the Declaration of Independence. John Hancock was the President of the Second Continental Congress. | |
| 160109417 | Declaration of Independence | This declaration of our freedom from England was worked on by a committe of 5 men (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Serman, Robert Livingston). Thomas Jefferson actually wrote it. It was adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776 and the final draft was signed on August 2. John Hancock signed his name large so "King George could read it without his spectacles." | |
| 160109418 | King George III | The king of England at the time of the Revolutionary War. | |
| 160109419 | Liberty Bell | This bell was rung in Philadelphia when the Declaration of Independence was read aloud. | |
| 160109420 | George Washington | The commander of the Continental Army | |
| 160109421 | Hessians | German soldiers who the British hired to help them fight the colonists. | |
| 160109422 | Washington Crossing the Delaware | The famous painting remembers the Christmas night when Washington crossed the Delawer and secretly surrounded the sleeping Hessian soldiers. | |
| 160109423 | Valley Forge | Washington and his troops spent a horrible winter in Valley Forge (1777-1778). They were starving and cold. Many deserted or died. | |
| 160109424 | Yorktown | This is the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. British General Cornwallis was surrounded by Washington's troops. His own reinforcements did not arrive in time, and he was forced to surrender. 8,000 British soldiers officially surrendered on October 19,1781. | |
| 160109425 | The Treaty of Paris | Peace talks began in paris in 1782. A treaty was finally signed on September 3, 1783. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay represented America at the peace talks. | |
| 160111302 | March 5, 1770 | Boston Massacre | |
| 160111303 | December 16, 1773 | Boston Tea Party | |
| 160111304 | September & October 1774 | First Continental Congress | |
| 160111305 | April 18, 1775 | Paul Revere's ride | |
| 160111306 | April 19,1775 | Lexington & Concord | |
| 160111307 | Summer 1776 | Second Continental Congress | |
| 160111308 | July 4, 1776 | Day Declaration of Independence adopted by Congress. | |
| 160111309 | August 2, 1776 | Day Declaration of Independence signed. | |
| 160111310 | October 19, 1782 | Battle of Yorktown/British soldiers officially surrendered. | |
| 160111311 | September 3, 1783 | Treaty of Paris signed |
