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The first battle of the Revolution was fought here.

A 100

Lexington & Concord

The British suffered many more casualties than the

Americans in this battle in Boston, which showed the colonists could take on the

British.

A 200

Battle of Bunker Hill

This group created the Continental Army and sent the Olive Branch Petition to

King George III.

A 300

Second Continental Congress

Benedict Arnold and a group of 400 men captured this

British fort and a large supply of weapons.

A 400

Fort Ticonderoga

The First Continental Congress decided to halt all

trade with Britain, start alerting colonial militias to prepare for war, and they

issued this.

A 500

Declaration of Rights

He was the primary author of the Declaration of

Independence.

B 100

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the influential pamphlet entitled Common

Sense.

B 200

Thomas Paine

The three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of

Independence.

B 300

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

B 400

July 4, 1776

The Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on this date.

The Declaration of Independence uses many ideas from this philosophical movement.

B 500

the Enlightenment

The Continental Army surprised and captured a

group of 900 Hessians in this battle.

C 100

Battle of Trenton

These two foreign countries supported the Patriots.

C 200

France and Spain

This battle was the turning point in the war because it boosted Patriot morale and

convinced foreign nations to aid the Patriots.

C 300

Battle of Saratoga

In this battle the Patriots surprised the British by

keeping their campfires lit.

C 400

Princeton

During the summer of 1776 the Patriots suffered defeats

in Canada and this place.

C 500

New York

The last major battle of the American Revolution.

D 100

Battle of Yorktown

Name of the British general whose surrender marked the

end of the war.

D 200

Cornwallis

Patriot who organized a group of guerrilla soldiers in the South to fight the British.

D 300

Francis Marion

The first colony in the South to fall to the British was this

one.

D 400

Georgia

The Patriots lost a battle here in May 1780, handing over

four ships and 5,400 prisoners.

D 500

Charleston, South Carolina

American navy hero.

E 100

John Paul Jones

French nobleman who aided the Patriots and convinced France to offer more aid.

E 200

Marquis de Lafayette

Name two of the three men who rode out to Lexington to

warn that the British were coming on April 18, 1775.

E 300

Revere, Dawes & Prescott

American who was sent to negotiate the Treaty of Paris.

E 400

Benjamin Franklin

Washington combined his forces with the French forces under this man to surround

the British at Yorktown.

E 500

Comte de Rochambeau

Name for the group of colonists that wanted to fight for

independence.

F 100

Patriots

Name for the group of colonists that did not want independence from Britain.

F 200

Loyalists or Tories

Name for the army created by the Americans to fight the war.

F 300

Continental Army

Name for the colonial militia in Massachusetts that fought at

Lexington.

F 400

Minutemen

Term for hired foreign soldiers, like the Hessians.

F 500

mercenaries

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Spanish governor that aided the Patriots.

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Bernardo de Galvez

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