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What is Battle of Yorktown
It was the final battle in the war where George Washington defeated British General Cornwallis
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Who is Thomas Jefferson
Delegate from Virginia who wrote the Declaration of Independence
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What is the Boston Massacre
Incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed American colonists
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
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What is The Treaty Paris
The 1783 treaty that ended the revolutionary war
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What is Battle of CharlesTown
British land and sea campaign that cut off and forced then for surrender
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Who is Benedict Arnold
U.S. army general in the revolutionary war who later turned traitor
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What is the Committee of correspondence
Organization formed to enhance information about British policies and American resistance
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What started the American Revolution
The shot heard Around the World
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What is pacifist
Someone who is against all war
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What is Battle of New York
British forces under general William Howe defeated patriot forces under General George Washington at the battle of Brooklyn
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Who is Patrick Henry
Member of Virginias house of burgesses
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What is the Townshend acts
Acts passed by parliament in 1767 to tax imports in the colonies
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What is the stamp act
Law requiring every legal and commercial document to carry an official stamp showing that a tax hasn’t came
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What is mercenary
Professional soldier hired to fight for a foreign country
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What is the battle at Lexington and Concord
It was the first military engagement of the American revolutionary war battles were fought on April 19, 1775
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Who is Paul Revere
Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement
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What is the intolerable acts
Series of laws, known in Britain as Coercive Acts, meant to punish Massachusetts and clam down on resistance in other colonies
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What is the Boston Tea party
Incident in 1773, when colonist protested British policies by going on for the ships and throwing their cargoes of tea overboard
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Who is Benedict Arnold
US army general in the revolutionary war who later turned to a traitor
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What is the battle at bunker hill
Colonists put cannons and weapons on top of a hill and the British attacked them but failed.
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Who is crispus Attucks
Sailer of African-American and Native American Ancestry who died at the Boston Massacre
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What is the second continental congress
Americas government during the revolutionary war
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What is the quartering act
Act requiring the colonist to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies.
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What is Valley Forge
Site in the southeast Pennsylvania where Washington and his army camp in the winter of 1777- 1778






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