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- People who sided with Great Britain and remained loyal to the crown.
- An army that the 2nd Continental Congress set up that Washington lead.
- What did colonies begin to form militias in response to?
- A rebel group from Vermont that led a surprise attack on Ticonderoga.
- A fight between France and Great Britain for power in Europe and North America.
- Declared the delegates loyalty to King George ||| and asked him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.
- The major turning point in the war that ended the British threat to New England.
- Was put together by Benjamin Franklin as a plan to defeat the French.
- Where the first major battle was held and where Colonial William Prescott led his 1,200 minutemen and fired Great Britain ships in Boston harbor.
- The delegates from 12 colonies formed this and agreed to boycott all GB goods and stopped exporting to GB.
- Who said, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"?
- Where were the first two battles of the American Revolution fought?
- The laws that the Parliament passed to punish Massachusetts.
- Men who were prepared to fight at a minutes notice.
- What is the popular saying that American colonists originated in protest of the taxation?
- ( Union or confederate) Used income tax to pay for war
- In the mid-1700s, what area were France and Britain competing for lands and rivers in?
- Which British soldier led the British in the French and Indian War to establish Fort Necessity?
- Once taken over, what did the British rename the French fort of Fort Duquesne?
- Why was the British government unlawfully taxing the American colonists?