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Betsy Ross
Stitched the first American flag with stars and stripes
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Lexington and Concord
The first battle(s) of the War for Independence
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Lake
An inland body of water that is usually fresh
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Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death
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Minutemen
Men prepared to fight at a minute’s notice
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Crispus Attucks
Black patriot killed at the Boston Massacre
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Bunker Hill
Americans proved they were hard to beat
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Source
Where a river begins
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Paul Revere
The British are coming!
The British are coming! |
Patriots
American colonists who wanted independence from England
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General Cornwallis
Leader of the British army who surrendered to Washington
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Trenton
Hessians were defeated here on Christmas
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Delta
Land deposited at the mouth of a river
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John Paul Jones
I have not yet begun to fight
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Ethan Allen
He and his men captured Fort Ticonderoga
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Nathan Hale
Brave American spy who was killed by the British
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Saratoga
This battle was the turning point of the war
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Gulf
A part of an ocean that reaches into the land, generally with a narrower opening than a bay
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Nathan Hale
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country
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Declaration of Independence
This document clearly stated the reasons why the colonists wanted their independence
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George Rogers Clark
I secured the Northwest Territory for America
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Yorktown
The British surrendered to the Americans here
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Channel
A deep narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water
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George Washington
We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die
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*protest of tax on tea
*colonists dressed as Indians *tea thrown into harbor
Describe the events of the Boston Tea Party
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