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| 13338531989 | Declaration of Independence | Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state. |  | 0 |
| 13338555304 | Haym Salomon | American financier and Revolutionary patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785) |  | 1 |
| 13338572305 | Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army. |  | 2 |
| 13338590703 | Francis Marion | South Carolina militia leader nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" for his hit-and-run attacks on the British during the American Revolution. |  | 3 |
| 13338611091 | Battle of Yorktown | the last major battle of the American Revolution |  | 4 |
| 13338618321 | Samuel Adams | American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty and one of the most vocal patriots for independence; signed the Declaration of Independence |  | 5 |
| 13338652475 | Mercy Otis Warren | female patriot who wrote poems to convince others to join the patriot cause |  | 6 |
| 13338666064 | Boston Tea Party | protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor |  | 7 |
| 13338682839 | Patriots | Colonists who wanted independence from Britain |  | 8 |
| 13338692660 | Second Continental Congress | Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775. |  | 9 |
| 13338710064 | Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation |  | 10 |
| 13338730988 | Boston Massacre | The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans |  | 11 |
| 13338766853 | John Paul Jones | American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792) said " I have not yet begun to fight." |  | 12 |
| 13338779481 | James Armistead | African American Patriot who spied for the Americans during the American Revolution. |  | 13 |
| 13338795379 | Treaty of Paris 1783 | This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River |  | 14 |
| 13338822315 | Battle of Trenton | On Christmas day at night, Washington's soldiers began crossing the Delaware River. The next morning, they surprise attacked the Hessians. |  | 15 |
| 13338842560 | Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence |  | 16 |
| 13338853581 | Baron Friedrich von Steuben | a Prussian military officer who trained the Continental Army |  | 17 |
| 13338864564 | George Rogers Clark | frontiersman who helped defend the western frontier |  | 18 |
| 13338881559 | Battle of Saratoga | American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution. |  | 19 |
| 13338893135 | Loyalists | Americans who supported the British |  | 20 |
| 13338906406 | Bernardo de Galvez | Spanish governor who aided the Americans during the Revolution |  | 21 |
| 13338918315 | Comte de Rochambeau | French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807) |  | 22 |
| 13338931513 | First Continental Congress | Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met to discuss problems with Britain and to promote independence |  | 23 |
| 13338956112 | Redcoats | British soldiers |  | 24 |
| 13338964830 | Battle of Bunker Hill | In 1775, first major battle of the revolution |  | 25 |
| 13338985922 | Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense |  | 26 |
| 13339001528 | Intolerable Acts | series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party |  | 27 |
| 13339013549 | Stamp Act of 1765 | Placed a tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies |  | 28 |
| 13339029880 | Minutemen | citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice |  | 29 |
| 13339042927 | George Washington | 1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799) |  | 30 |
| 13339053976 | Tea Act of 1773 | Gave the East India Company an unfair business advantage over colonial merchants. |  | 31 |
| 13339080238 | Committees of Correspondence | Organizations in each of the American colonies created to keep colonists aware of developments with the British |  | 32 |
| 13339111381 | Quartering Act | 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies. |  | 33 |
