American Revolution

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  1. 3. an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797
  2. 7. an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809
  3. 8. A pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies form Britain.
  4. 10. The site where the British army formally surrendered on October 19, 1781, ending the American Revolution.
  5. 12. 1764 tax placed on sugar.
  6. 13. Colonists who supported American independence from Britain.
  7. 15. Colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.
  8. 17. an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
  9. 18. an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.
  10. 19. fought on June 17, 1775 during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.
  11. 20. fought October 7, 1777 a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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  1. 1. The site in Pennsylvania where the Continental army spent the winter of 1777-1778 under extremely harsh conditions.
  2. 2. the first offensive victory for American forces in the Revolutionary War. It secured the strategic passageway north to Canada and netted the patriots an important cache of artillery.
  3. 4. In the United States and the United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading British general officers in the American War of Independence.
  4. 5. The dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act.
  5. 6. some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775,
  6. 9. The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation.
  7. 11. the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  8. 14. A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America
  9. 16. a gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.