American Revolution

A disagreement between the British and French over land along the Ohio River resulted in the

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• Battle of Saratoga

• Boston Tea Party

During the French and Indian War,

• the French defeated the Native Americans and gained new land.

• John Paul Jones defeated the French.

• The British defeated the French and gained new land.

Who is best known for riding through Massachusetts towns warning people that the British army was marching to Concord?

• Sam Adams

• Paul Revere

• Patrick Henry

• George Washington

Some people who resisted the Stamp Act by boycotting British goods called themselves

• redcoats

• Minutemen

• immigrants

• Sons of Liberty

Crispus Attucks was

• an African American man killed in the Boston massacre.

• the leader of the Sons of Liberty.

• wrote Poor Richard's Almanac.

• a Civil War soldier who loved to eat sauerkraut.

The American Revolution ended with the

• British surrender at Yorktown.

• American victory at Saratoga.

• signing the Declaration of Independence.

• British victory at Charleston, South Carolina.

Colonists organized the Boston Tea Party to stop

• Parliament from passing the Tea Act.

• Dutch merchants from smuggling tea.

• British tea from being delivered to the colony.

• Parliament from increasing the price of British tea.

Laws that that took away Massachusetts' self-government and required colonists to house British soldiers were part of the

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

"The shot heard round the world" was fired at the Battle of

• Bunker Hill

• Brooklyn

• Lexington

• Trenton

The Continental Army lost almost half its men during the winder it spent camped at

• Valley Forge

• Yorktown

• New York

• Philadelphia