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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, 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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