War for Independence History Detective
Directions:
You are a history detective
for this assignment. Your job is to take the clues given and find out
who the person or event is.
Standard 8.1 and 8.2 - Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.
1. Commander of the American forces during the American Revolution
2. He has the most famous signature on the Declaration of Independence.
3. Diplomat, scientist, inventor, and the only person to sign the Declaration of Independence, the treaty that ended the American Revolution, and the Constitution
4. Leader of the Sons of Liberty
5. In 1775, before the battle of Lexington, they were dispatched to rouse the country that the Red Coats were coming.
6. He said, "And as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
7. He wrote a very influential pamphlet called Common Sense that encouraged Americans to declare independence
8. Cities where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired
9. This British Act taxed all printed material
10. This British Act forced the colonists to house and feed British soldiers
11. This 1781 battle of French and American forces caused the British government to eventually negotiate an end to the American Revolutionary War.
12. He was king of England during the American Revolution
13. What the colonists called the laws that punished them for the Boston Tea Party
14. The two enemies of the British in the war that lasted from 1754-1763
15. This law forbid the colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains
16. A slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s which helped lead to revolution
17. This event saw the first deaths of civilians in the American Revolution by British soldiers
18. Name of the British government and supreme legislative body
19. Main author of the Declaration of Independence
20. He was sent to France at the beginning of the American Revolution to ask for help