1777
When was Battle of Saratoga
1763
When was Proclomation Line Drawn?
1774
What year was First Continental Congress?
1775
What year was Second Continental Congress?
1776
What year was the Declaration of Independence drafted?
1770
What year was Boston Massacre?
1773
What year was Boston Tea Party?
1765
When did the Stamp Act Congress initiate?
1783
What year was the Treaty of Paris signed?
1781
What year was the Battle of Yorktown?
Thomas Paine
Who wrote Common Sense
Jonathan Edwards
Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Phyllis Wheatley
Who was the first African-American poet?
George Whitefield
Who had the greatest voice of the Revivals? From England.
William Blackstone
Who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England?
David Brainerd
Who was the missionary to the Indians?
John Dickinson
Who authored "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies"?
Robert Morris
Who was the superintendent of finance for the Continental Congress and also took out a personal loan to help pay for military expenses?
Halfway Covenant
What allowed church members' children to become members; showed the spiritual decline of New England
Johnathan Edwards and George Whitefield
Who were the two greatest men in the Great Awakening?
Dartmouth, Brown, Rutgers, Princeton
What were the four colleges found from the Great Awakening?
mercantilism
What was the theory that said colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country?
Navigation Acts
What acts between 1650-1696 affected laws of trade?
James Otis
Who spoke out about the Sugar Act?
George III
Who became king in 1760?
Sam Adams
Who organized the Sons of Liberty
Proclamation of 1763
What act prohibited Western expansion beyond Appalacians?
Stamp Act
What act was boycotted and forced it to quickly become repealed?
Edmund Burke
Who defended the colonial cause in Parliament? Irishman
Quartering Act
Which act forced the colonists to house British soldiers?
Sugar Act
Which act affected sugar?
Townshend
Who was the Chancellor of Exchequer and caused more problems for the colonists/
Ethan Allen
Who led the Green Mountain Boys?
Lexington
Where was 'the shot heard round the world'?
Howe, Burgoyne, Cornwallis
Who were the three British generals?
Dawes, Revere, Prescott
Who were the three riders to warn the British were coming?
Philadelphia
Where did the Continental Congress's meet?
Prohibitory Act
What act prohibited all trade in the colonies?
Herkimer
What general won the Battle of Oriskany?
Nathan Hale
Who was hung for spying for Washington?
Haym Solomon
Who was the Polishman who went to France for a loan?
Baron von Steuben
Who was a Prussian drillmaster?
Marquis de Lafayette
Who was the French aide to Washington?
Thomas Gage
Who originally led the troops to Boston?
William Howe
Who was the general that conquered Philadelphia?
Hessians
What was the name of the German mercenaries George III hired?
General Burgoyne
Who surrendered to Gates at Saratoga?
Valley Forge
Where did Washington spend the winter of 1777-1778
Yorktwon
Where did Cornwallis surrender to Washington?
Battle of Saratoga
What was the turning point of the war?
Mad Anthony Wayne
Who seized forts along the Hudson River?
John Paul Jones
Who was the captain of the Bonhomme Richard?
Trenton
Where did Washington capture the Hessians?
Richard Henry Lee
Who proposed the resolution for independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who led the committee to draft the Declaration?
France
Who was the greatest ally to the colonies?
Yorktown
Where was the final surrender of the war?
George Rogers Clark
Who captured Kaskasia and Vincennes
Nathaneal Greene
Who was the "Fighting Quaker"?
Frances Marion
Who was the "Swamp Fox"?
Loyalists
What was the group that opposed independence?
Patriots
What was the group that favored independence?
Seven Years' War
What did Europeans call the French and Indian War?
Albany Plan
What plan did Ben Franklin create in 1754 to unify the colonies?
many English political thinkers worked on colonies behalf; well organized without riots or anarchy (political theory contracts prohibitory act); independence was a last alternative to the persecution they faced; many English principles were put into pract
Why was the war not a rebellion?