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Date
American Revolution
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WHO’S WHO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PERSON(S)
CLAIM TO FAME
King
George III
The
Minutemen
Thomas
Paine
George
Washington
King of England during the American
Revolution
Colonial soldiers who were ready to
fight at any time
English-born political activist who wrote
Common Sense
Commander of the Continental Army;
later became 1st U.S. president; the
“Father of His Country”
Thomas
Wrote Declaration of Independence;
Jefferson
later became 3rd president
Charles
British general who lost to Washington
Cornwallis
at Yorktown
James
Wrote the Constitution; later became
Madison
4th president
COLONISTS’ SLOGAN:
“ No
taxation
without
representation !”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are life , liberty
, and the ___pursuit__ __of__
____happiness_____________…”
—Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776
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MAJOR EVENTS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
EVENT
DATE
DESCRIPTION
Stamp Act
1765
Townshend
Acts
Boston
Massacre
Boston Tea
Party
1767
Tax on paper documents; 1st direct tax on
colonists
Tax on glass, paint, paper, and especially tea
1770
British soldiers kill 5 colonists in a riot
1773
Colonists threw British tea into Boston
Harbor to protest tea tax. Britain punished
them by passing the “Intolerable Acts.”
1st battles of the American Revolution
Battles of
April
Lexington and 1775
Concord
Olive Branch
July Last effort by Continental Congress to avoid
Petition
1775
all-out war; King George III refused to read!
January Pamphlet that used Enlightenment ideas to
Common
1776
Sense
say America should become independent
published
from Britain
Declaration of July 4, USA’s birthday; Continental Congress said
Independence 1776
that colonies were free from British rule
Battle of
Dec. Washington crossed the Delaware River and
Trenton
25-26, captured Hessian mercenaries in surprise
1776
attack on Christmas night
Battle of
1777 American victory that convinced France to
Saratoga
aid Americans; turning point of Revolution
Battle of
1781 Washington’s army and the French navy
Yorktown
surrounded Cornwallis in last battle;
America wins the war!
Constitutional 1787 Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia to
Convention
write the Constitution for our government