American Revolution Flashcards
___used these taxes to pay for the war they had against____
England
France
Colonists were angry over the_____.
Taxes
Colonists believed that only their_____ government had the right to_____.
Elected
Tax
The battles of_____ and________ were the first battles of the American Revolution.
Lexington
Concord
The battle of Saratoga is known as the______
_______ of the American Revolution.
Turning point
The last battle of the American Revolution took place at____.
Yorktown
General________ was the commander of the continental______.
George Washington
Army
The continental congress wrote the ______ to explain why the colonists wanted to break away from England.
Declaration of Independence
First there was the arrival of the__________.
Europeans
Second there was the_____period.
Colonial
Third came the________.
American Revolutionary War
Northern and southern_______ both had_______.
Colonies
Slaves
The __________ colonies had fewer slaves than the southern colonies because_______ was not as profitable In the northern colonies.
Northern
Slavery
________was an important colony during the American Revolution.
New York
New York was_______located and had many important_______. This made it very valuable to the British.
Centrally
Water ways
