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BattlesDecl.Indep. Docu ments Cause or Effect Famous People Potpo- urri

THIS BATTLE WAS THE MAJOR TURNING POINT FOR THE AMERICANS Battles $100

Saratoga Back to Game

THIS WAS THE FIRST MAJOR BATTLE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH FORCES Battles for $200

Bunker Hill Back to Game

IN THIS BATTLE THE FRENCH NAVY HELPED THE AMERICANS WIN BY PREVENTING THE BRITISH FROM ESCAPING. Battles for $300

Yorktown Back to Game

THIS MAN TOOK THE BATTLE TO THE SEA AND FOUGHT IN AMERICAS FIRST NAVAL BATTLES Battles for $400

Captain John Paul Jones Back to Game

THIS WAS WASHINGTON’S FIRST VICTORY AND KEPT HIS ARMY ALIVE DURING THE WINTER OF Battles for $500

Back to Game Trenton

WE CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY IN REMEMBRANCE OF THIS DAY AND YEAR Declaring Independence for $100

July 4, 1776 Back to Game

THIS MAN DRAFTED THE ACTUAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ITSELF Declaring Independence for $200

Thomas Jefferson Back to Game

THIS IS THE FIRST OF THE FOUR PARTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Declaring Independence for $300

Preamble Back to Game

Declaring Independence $400 THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WERE VIEWED TO BE COMMITTING AN ACT OF THIS BY THE ENGLISH

Treason Back to Game

Declaring Independence $500 HE WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED TO DRAFT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BUT TURNED THE OFFER DOWN SAYING THAT HE WAS “OBNOXIOUS AND DISLIKED.”

John Adams Back to Game

HE WAS COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE COLONIAL ARMY Famous People for $100

GEORGE WASHINGTON Back to Game

HE LED THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS IN THEIR CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA Famous People for $200

Ethan Allen Back to Game

Famous People for $300 THOUGH HE ONCE FOUGHT BRAVELY FOR THE AMERICANS, THIS MAN LATER BECAME AN INFAMOUS TRAITOR TO THE PATRIOT CAUSE

Benedict Arnold Back to Game

Famous People for $400 THIS MAN STOOD UP AT THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN JUNE 1776 AND PROPOSED THE COLONIES DECLARE THEIR INDEPENDENCE

Richard Henry Lee Back to Game

Famous People for $500 THIS MAN PLANNED TO CUT OFF NEW ENGLAND FROM THE SOUTHERN COLONIES BY WINNING AT SARATOGA

Back to Game John Burgoyne

Documents for $100 JOHN HANCOCK WAS THE FIRST TO SIGN IT ON JULY 4, BUT THE COPY NOW ON DISPLAY WAS ACTUALLY SIGNED ON AUGUST 2

Declaration of Independence Back to Game

Documents for $200 THIS DOCUMENT OFFICIALLY ENDED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND FORCED GREAT BRITAIN TO RECOGNIZE AMERICA AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION

Treaty of Paris, 1783 Back to Game

THOMAS PAINE WROTE THIS TO TELL COLONISTS WHY THEY SHOULD BREAK AWAY FROM ENGLAND Documents for $300

Common Sense Back to Game

Documents for $400 THIS DOCUMENT WAS SENT BY THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO KING GEORGE III AS A LAST EFFORT AT PEACE.

The Olive Branch Petition Back to Game

Documents for $500 GEORGE WASHINGTON READ THIS THOMAS PAINE WORK ALOUD TO HIS TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO STAY THE COURSE OVER THE HARD WINTER

The Crisis Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $100 AS AN EFFECT OF THE CAPTURE OF FORT TICONDEROGA BY THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS, THE COLONIAL ARMY MANAGED TO SEIZE THESE INVALUABLE ARMAMENTS

Cannons and Gunpowder Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $200 THIS BEST SELLING PAMPHLET CAUSED MANY AMERICANS TO THINK VERY SERIOUSLY ABOUT DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN.

Common Sense Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $300 THIS VICTORY PROVED TO THE FRENCH THAT THE AMERICANS COULD WIN AND CAUSED THEM TO GIVE AID

Saratoga Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $400 BECAUSE OF THEIR LOOTING THE AMERICAN FORCES THAT WENT TO CANADA UNDER MONTGOMERY AND ARNOLD WERE UNABLE TO ENLIST THE HELP OF THIS GROUP

French Canadians Back to Game

Cause or Effect for $500 BECAUSE BRITAIN DID NOT WANT TO LOSE BRITISH LIVES, THEY HIRED THESE MERCENARIES TO HELP THEM FIGHT THE COLONISTS.

Hessians/ Germans Back to Game

Potpourri for $100 THE UNKNOWN SHOT THAT STARTED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAS NICKNAMED THIS.

Potpourri for $100 Back to Game THE SHOT HEART ‘ROUND THE WORLD

Potpourri for $200 THIS WAS THE NAME OF BENJAMIN TALLMADGE'S SPY RING THAT HE ORGANIZED IN NEW YORK CITY.

Potpourri for $200 Back to Game CULPER GANG

Potpourri for $300 THESE MERCENARY SOLDIERS WERE FROM GERMANY.

Potpourri for $300 Back to Game HESSIANS

Potpourri for $400 THIS FRENCH COMMANDER BROUGHT TROOPS TO AMERICA AND HELPED WASHINGTON TRAIN AND LEAD HIS ARMY.

Potpourri for $400 Back to Game MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Potpourri for $500 THESE WERE THE SUPPOSED "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" OF CAPTURED SPY NATHAN HALE.

Potpourri for $500 Back to Game I ONLY REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR MY COUNTRY.