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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Said, "Give me liberty or give me death"; freedom is worth dying for; favored an individual's rights | Patrick Henry |
| Sons of Liberty (disguised as Mohawks) boarded British ships and dumped tea a protest to Tea Act | Boston Tea Party |
| Frenchman who aided troops at Valley Forge by supplying clothing | Marquis de Lafayette |
| From Spain, Correspondent to the founding fathers in the American Revolution | Bernardo de Galvez |
| African American spy during the American Revolution | James Armistead |
| African-American who was the first to die in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| Patriot Writer, First female historian of the American Revolution | Mercy Otis Warren |
| Inventor, discoverer of electricity, negotiated peace treaty with France | Benjamin Franklin |
| Polish born, Jewish Immigrant that helped finance the American Revolution, Arrested by the British for being a spy | Haym Salomon |
| Commander of the American troops during the Revolution; 1st President | George Washington |
| King of England during the American Revolution | King George III |
| Took a stance for women's rights in letters to her husband during the American Revolution | Abigail Adams |
| Wrote Common Sense (people should rule themselves, not ruled by a King) & wrote "The Crisis" to encourage troops | Thomas Paine |
| Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston | Samuel Adams |
| Wrote the Declaration of Independence; Anti Federalist | Thomas Jefferson |
| Last battle of the American Revolution where Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington | Yorktown |
| Washington's starving, poorly equipped troops trained here during freezing winter | Valley Forge |
| First battles of the American Revolution; the "Shot Heard Round the World" | Lexington & Concord |
| 'Turning point in the American Revolution; the 1st time that it looked like the Americans would win | Saratoga |
| Rights that all people are born with; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness | Inalienable (Unalienable) Rights |
| Treaty that ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris |
| 1763, A law that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts. | The Proclamation Line |
| Slogan of colonial grievance due to paying $ without consent | Taxation without representation |
| Listed the reasons that the U.S, was officially overthrowing the British Rule: written in 1776 | Declaration of Independence |