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1.Navigation Acts
This was designed to tighten the government’s control over England, its colonies, and the rest of the world. It was meant for the English government to keep a close eye on England’s imports and exports and tighten economic oversight in the colonies. -
22.Patrick Henry
Patrick Henrywas born on May 29, 1736, delivered the famous "Give me liberty or give me death!" Speech, and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress. -
3.French and Indian War
was a war between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763. It was a phase between during the Seven’s Years’ War and resulted with a win from the British. -
37.Francis Marion
He was born near Georgetown in Berkeley County, South Carolina. After getting an education, at local schools, he went to sea at the age of 15. Later to be fighting with his brother in the French and Indian War. -
5.Proclamation of 1763
This is when a proclamation created at the end of the French and Indian War, issued by the British. Intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
13.Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a secret society which was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to also fight taxation by the British. -
2.Quartering Act
This was two British Laws, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1765 and 1774, that were created to force local colonial governments to provide housing and necessity for British soldiers stationed in the 13 colonies. -
8.Declaratory Act
A declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repel of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America. -
4.Townshend Act
This is where four acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to establish authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. -
41.Wentworth Cheswell
Wentworth Cheswell was the grandson of black slave, Richard Cheswell. In the following years, after getting his education, Wentworth was elected town constable. In further years, he would be elected for higher positions effecting local society. -
28.John Adams
John Adams was born in 1735, was a leader of the American Revolution and served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801. After the Boston Massacre, he provided legal defense for the accused British soldiers. -
20.Boston Massacre
In the Boston Massacre there was a group of British soldiers who came to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Happened on March 5, 1770. -
21.Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks was first person killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, widely referred to the first American killed in the American Revolution. -
9.Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain to objectively reduce the massive amount of held by the financially troubled British East India Company. -
25.Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. Helped formulate resistance to the Stamp Act and helped in the Boston Tea Party. Samuel Adams was a signee of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. -
44.Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence was instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress. This served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions. -
17.Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental on July 5, 1775 to try to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies. Affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and beseeched King George III to prevent conflict. -
18.The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was on the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty went aboard three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
16.Daughter of Liberty
Daughter of Liberty was a rule that signified that the formal women association was formed to protest against the Stamp Act and later the Townshend Acts. -
11.Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts were four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance. -
6.Quebec Act
Act of the British Parliament in 1774 that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French Civil Code, the seigneurial system of land tenure, and the Roman Catholic Church. -
7.Stamp Act
The first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. It taxed all paper made documents so the British would be able to pay for their damages from the war. -
46.First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates for twelve of the thirteen colonies. They met from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Their meeting place was at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. -
12.Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen was born in 1738, fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. He led the Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775. -
15.James Armistead
James Armistead was an enslaved African American who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was a double agent, he was responsible for reporting the activities of Benedict Arnold in 1775. -
14.Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was an early American hero of the Revolutionary War who then became one of the most known traitor because he switched sides from the U.S. to the British. -
32.George Washington
George Washington was an American soldier who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, the first president of the United Sates, and was one of the Founding Fathers of America. -
35.John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones was the United States first well known naval commander in the American Revolution, on the American side. He was commonly accused of piracy. -
40.Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an icon in the American Revolution, and was immortalized in the Henry Wadswoth Longfellow poem. As well, as his midnight ride in whom to tell of bearing news of an upcoming British Invasion. -
43.William Dawes
William Dawes was one of several men and a woman in April 1775 who alerted colonial minutemen in Massachusetts during the Battles of Lexington and Concord. -
10.Green Mountain Boys
A was group of colonists in 1775 the Green Mountain Boys which was led by Ethan Allen and included 83 colonists as well as help from Colonel Benedict Arnold. They marched north to attack and later capture the British held fort, Fort Ticonderoga. -
36.The Continental Army
The Continental Army established by the Second Continental Congress a few days before the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. The army as under the command of George Washington. -
38.Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord was fought on April 19,1775, which was the kick off towards the American Revolution. Tensions had been rising between the 13 colonies, and Britain mainly in Massachusetts. Finally, on April 18,1775 hundreds of British troops marched to Concord in order to make their cache. -
29.Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was on June 17, 1775 early in the Revolutionary War where the British defeated the Americans at the battle. -
19.Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was born in June of 1755, Nathan Hale whom was an American soldier during the American Revolution fought for his country. Not only being a soldier, he was also a spy for the continental Army. -
23.Common Sense
The Common Sense was a pamphlet written in 1776 advocating independence from Great Britain and later challenged the British government and the royal monarchy. -
26.Haym Solomon
Haym Solomon was born on April 7, 1740 in Leszno, Poland, helped convert the French loans into ready cash. In 1776 he was then arrested as a spy for the U.S. army. -
45.Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was the writer of Common Sense in 1776, which crystallized the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain -
34.Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a leading figure in the America's early development, while at the rank of the third U.S. president. He was the make/author of the Declaration of Independence. -
42.Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. -
47.Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a management to the Colonial War effort and moved towards the beginning of thought towards independence. In further ways, this act adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4,1776. -
24.Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was a series of military conflicts fought between the kingdom of Great Britain and the 13 colonies in 1777. -
33.Valley Forge
A six-month encampment of the Continental Army of the newly formed United States of America under the command of General George Washington a few miles away from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
48.Bernado de Gálvez
Bernardo de Gálvez aided the 13 colonies in the American Revolution with the Spanish forces. They defeated the British at the Siege of Pensacola and conquered West Florida in 1781. -
27.Battle Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown happened on October 19, 1781 and was won by George Washington and his army, with the help of the French. Considered the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. -
30.Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, and in 1783 he negotiated the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary war. -
39.Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Paris was a treaty in which it negotiated between the United States and Great Britain. It finally ended the American Revolution, and declared America's Independence. -
31.John Jay
John Jay was the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the government. Helped broker the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
