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| 1220464542 | Minutemen | American colonists who were ready to fight at a minute's notice. | 0 | |
| 1220464543 | Guerilla Warfare | Fighters who use hit and run attacks and sneak attacks. | 1 | |
| 1220464544 | Boston Tea Party | Sam Adams and Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into Boston harbor. They were protesting the Tea Act ( a British tax on tea). | 2 | |
| 1220464545 | Intolerable Acts | Series of Laws passed by England to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party. | 3 | |
| 1220464546 | Boycott | To refuse to buy products. Colonies boycotted English goods. | 4 | |
| 1220464547 | Natural Rights | Rights that we're born with. Life Libterty and Pursuit of happiness. England tried to take these rights. | 5 | |
| 1220464548 | Hessians | German Army that fought on the side of England | 6 | |
| 1220464549 | Loyalist | Colonists who remained loyal to England. | 7 | |
| 1220464550 | Valley Forge | Where Washington's army camped during winter. People had no shoes, were sick with smallpox, had little food and few supplies. Many died. Washington put smallpox virus into people's cuts to make them immune to the disease. | 8 | |
| 1220464551 | John Paul Jones | Started U.S . Navy. Kept getting promoted to Navy captain. | 9 | |
| 1220464552 | Main ideas of Declaration of Independence | A letter that stated what a good government SHOULD look like, reasons why the king was a BAD king, an explanation of why we wanted to break away from England and form our own INDEPENDENT country. | 10 | |
| 1220464553 | Battle of Yorktown | Final battle of the Revolutionary War. American victory that won the Revolutionary War!!!!! French soldiers joined George Washington's troops and supported the U.S. by land and by sea. America/France surrounded the English troops and they were forced to surrender. | 11 | |
| 1220464554 | Common Sense | An essay by Thomas Paine that tried to convince people to fight for independence. | 12 | |
| 1220464555 | The Treaty of Paris | After the war, the British recognized the U.S. as an independent nation. The borders of the U.S. were drawn between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River. This treaty ended the Revolutionary War. | 13 | |
| 1220464556 | Olive Branch Petition | Last attempt to make peace with England before the Revolutionary War really got going. | 14 | |
| 1220464557 | Battle of Bunker Hill | The first major battle of the Revolution. The American leader was William Prescott and the British General was William Howe. Americans killed many British soldiers and the British were shocked by this. The British won the battle, but it showed that the Americans were in the war to win it!! | 15 | |
| 1220464558 | Battle of Trenton | GEORGE WASHINGTON crossed the icy winter Delaware River in order to sneak attack the HESSIANS (German troops who were fighting for Britain). The sneak attack took place on the morning after Christmas, when Washington knew the Germans would be drunk from celebrating. Washington was successful and took most of the Hessians prisoner. | 16 | |
| 1220464559 | Battle of Saratoga | A major turning point in the war. British leader Burgoyne had to surrender to the American army on October 17, 1777. The battle ended the British threat to New England. It boosted American spirits and convinced France to help America. | 17 | |
| 1220464560 | Boston Massacre | British soldiers shot and killed five colonists. The soldiers were armed with guns, while the colonists had snowballs, chunks of ice, and clubs used for fishing. When the five colonists were shot, Paul Revere drew a political cartoon that showed the colonists as completely innocent and unarmed. The political cartoon spread through the colonies and convinced colonists that the British were cold blooded killers. The colonists were outraged. | 18 | |
| 1220464561 | Reasons Leading Up To Revolutionary War | Colonists were over-taxed by England. They were angry that they weren't represented in England's government ("No taxation without representation!!"). The Boston Massacre also made colonists angry. All of this led up to the war. | 19 | |
| 805084451 | Second Continental Congress | 12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia to decide whether or not to start a war with England for independence. The colonies decided to declare war. | 20 | |
| 835528430 | Petition | A letter to someone in power asking for something that you want. If enough people sign it, you'll hopefully get what you want. Colonists sent a petition to the British king. | 21 | |
| 469626325 | Patriot (Colonial) Army Advantages | The colonial army used sneak attacks and Native American guerrilla warfare. The colonists became allies with France. The colonists knew the land and the British did not. They had supplies available in America (as opposed to the British who needed supplies sent to them from England). | 22 | |
| 424258478 | Proclamation of 1763 | Right after the French and Indian War, England made the colonists angry by passing this Proclamation that banned colonists from settling past the Appalachian Mountains. This was one of the causes that led to the Revolutionary War. | 23 | |
| 432269866 | Tea Act | The British began taxing tea. This tax made the colonists angry with England. This was one of the causes that led to the Revolutionary War. | 24 | |
| 1452581147 | Stamp Act | The British began taxing legal documents (wills, diplomas, marriage licenses), almanacs, newspapers, playing cards, dice, etc. this made colonists angry because they were being taxed without representation in British Parliament (Government). NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!! This was a major cause of the war. | 25 | |
| 2153980340 | Why did the British have to leave Boston in the early stages of the Revolutionary War? | At Fort Tichonderoga, Colonists seized cannons and brought them to Boston. That forced the British to leave because the Colonists had the cannons on high ground pointed toward the British. | 26 | |
| 2153985709 | Lexington and Concord | Where the first skirmishes (small fights) of the Revolution happened. The first shots of the Revolution were fired here. | 27 | |
| 2153994863 | What was the first group that protested British policies? | Sons of Liberty | 28 |
