_____ sick
Pitt
When was the boston massacre
March 5, 1770
______ Bostonians died during the boston massacre because they threw ______ at British soldiers
5
Snowballs
Lord north became the new ______ ______
Prime minister
Repealed Townsend acts because they’re too _____ to enforce
Expensive
They kept the tax on ______
Tea
Committee of correspondence in ____
1772
What two men ran the committee of correspondence
John Adams and Samuel Hancock
What did the committee of corospondence do
Organized a group of 21 men to keep other colonies informed on problems with Britain
When was the boston tea party
December 12 1773
What company sold cheap tea
British east India company
At The Boston tea party patriots dumped ______ chests of tea into __________
340
Boston harbor
The quartering act was when britishtroops could go into any _______
Building
In the boston port bill, the boston port was closed until the patriots would ___________ no ships _____ no ships out
Pay their tea tax
In
Quebec act in ______ scared the colonists because ________ was the religion of Quebec and they feared loosing religious freedom and being ruled by ______
1774
Catholicism
Pope
When was the first continental congress?
September 5 1774
Oct 14,1774 they recognized the ______ of _____
Authority of king
Who said “give me liberty or give me death”? Who was if said to
Patrick Henry
House of burgesses
Volunteer militia was _______
Minutemen
First battle of revolution ?
Lexington and concord
Shot heard round the world- what battle
Battle of Lexington and concord
April ____, 1775 Brits head for concord
18
What 3 men warns that the British were coming
Revere, Dawes,a nd prescott
April _____ 1774 - British win battle of _______
19
Lexington and concord
Fall of fort Ticonderoga may _____(year)
1775
Ethan Allen and green ______ boys capture fort ______
Mountain
Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga located on lake ______
Champlain
2nd continental congress, John Hancock is ______ of congress
President
2nd continental congress makes George W ______
Cheif of army
Battle of bunker hill is 1st __________ of war
Major battle
Battle of bunker hill is June ___ 1775 and actually in ______ hill
16
Breeds
Olive branch petition - _____ 1775
July
Olive branch petition sent to George 3 by _____ asking for ______ terms
Loyalist colonies
Reasonable
George 3 wanted ______
Submission
Thomas Paine wrote book ______ ______ in ____ 1776
Common sense
January
Declerarion of independence _____ _, ______
July 4,1776
Deceleration of independence led by Thomas _____, all me are _____, resistance to _______ not law
Jefferson
Equal
Parliament
Foreinf help for patriots from baron de ____, Kosciusko and Pulaski of ______
Kalb of Germany
Poland
Capture of Trenton and Princeton in colony of ______
New Jersey
December ______ Washington crosses Delaware (Christmas nught)
1776
Nathan _____ hung by British ~ “I only regret I have but _____ ____ to lose for my ______”
Hale
One life
Country
Battle at Saratoga _____(month) 1776
October
Battle of Saratoga ~ turning ______ of war
Point
Saratoga ~ Burgoyne surrenders to general ____
Gates
Winter of valley forge _____-_____
1777-1778
September ____ 1776 britishtroops capture city of _____
26
Philadelphia
Washington and troops flee to _______ ______ and ___ leave or die
Valley forge
1/2
March ____ 1778, Washingtonian announces ____ are coming
5
French
June _____ British withdraw from _____
1778
Philadelphia
Capitol of colonies ~
Philadelphia
Battle of Monmouth is _____ of 1778, Washington meets British when they were on their way to ___ ____
Summer
New York
Molly ______ fires connoisseur hen soldiers were hurt
Pitcher
George ____ Clarke and Kentucky ______ capture fort Vincennes in feb ____
Rodgers
Volunteers
1779
______ Paul ______~ best know naval ______
John
Jones
Hero
_______ strategy now used
Guerrilla
Who was the patriot traitor?
Benedict Arnold
Battle of kings mountain ____(month) 1778, major battle in ____
October
South
Battle of kings Mountain; Nathaniel ____ “fighting ______” replaces gates
Greene
Quaker
Yorktown Virginia October 178_, mouth of Chesapeake ___, British waiting for supplies from ______, we block the bay
1
Bay
Ocean
Yorktown - last ____ battle of war ends in ____
Major
1783
Essay - treaty of Paris boundaries , when if was signed, whose land is returned, and British can still collect what
North to canada, west to missippi, south to florida. Signed sept 1783, loyalists land is returned, British still can collect american debts
Washington attacked hessian a at what battle
Trenton
Townsend was the secretary of _____
Treasury
