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. Copy the
clues into your notebook, and then write the answer under the clue.
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 was first Secretary of State of the United States
3. He was the only person to sign the Declaration
of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution
4. Leader of the Sons of Liberty
5. Two of the people that warned the colonists 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. The British Act in 1764 that taxed the colonists for the first time
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. Author of the Declaration of Independence
20. Name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution