REVOLUTIONARY WAR

A IS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS

• They were slaves.
• They fought in the revolutionary war because the colonists said that they would give them freedom in return.

B IS FOR BOSTON MASSACRE

• This event took place when colonists started calling the British soldiers names and throwing icicles and snow at them, and in return the British soldiers started shooting into the crowd killing one person.
• This event made the colonists extremely angry.

C IS FOR COMMON SENSE

• Common Sense was a book written by Thomas Paine that encouraged colonists to declare and fight for independence.
• It explained the advantages and the needs for independence.

D IS FOR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• This is the name of a statement made by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the colonists were no longer part of the British empire.
• The colonists instead created a new nation, called America.

E IS FOR ETHAN ALLEN

• He was best known for being one of the founders of Vermont.
• He was also remembered for capturing Fort Ticonderoga with Benedict Arnold.

F IS FOR FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

• This was a war between the British and the French, each allied with Native Americans.
• The French had roughly 60,000 and the British had 2 million, clearly outnumbering the French.

G IS FOR "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!"

• This was a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775.
• The speech possibly convinced the convention to send Virginian troops to revolutionary war.

H IS FOR HANCOCK

• John Hancock was the president of the continental congress.
• He decided for George Washington to take the position of the general.

I IS FOR INDEPENDENCE

• This is what colonists wanted when they left England.
• This is also what they wanted after the French and Indian war.

K IS FOR KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITIAN

• Britain was one of the sides in the revolutionary war.
• It was lead by king Henry III at that time.

L IS FOR LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• This battle took place on April 19, 1775.
• The British first approached the colonists in Lexington. They were waiting for the first person to shoot when a unknown person shot his gun and everyone started shooting, killing 8 colonists but only wounding 1 redcoat.
• Then the British moved on to Concord to steal the weapons but they couldn't find them. Then colonists started pouring out and then attacked the British. The colonists won at concord.

M IS FOR MINUTEMEN

• Minutemen were an organized group of militias that could get ready to fight in minute's notice.
• They could respond to a war threat quickly and took up a quarter of the entire army.

N IS FOR NAVIGATION ACTS

• The Navigation Acts were a series of laws limiting the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and the colonies.
• They began in 1651 and ended 200 years later.

O IS FOR OCTOBER 1777

• The Battle of Saratoga took place in October of 1777 when John Burgoyne, a British General, lead an army to New York, hoping to meet another army to help them.
• Help never came and the British army were surrounded by Americans. The Brits fought two small battles to escape but failed. Burgoyne surrendered his entire army to the colonists.

P IS FOR THOMAS PAINE

• Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet called Common Sense, which encouraged colonists to declare independence from Britain.
• He was also one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Q IS FOR QUARTERING ACT

• Quartering Act is the name of an act in the local American colonies to provide British soldiers with food or shelter.
• This raised tension in the thirteen colonies.

R IS FOR REVERE

• Paul Revere is best known for alerting the colonial militias to the approach of British forces before the battle of Lexington and Concord.
• That was called, "Paul Revere's Ride."

S IS FOR SAMUEL ADAMS

• Samuel Adams represented Massachusetts from 1774-1781.
• After serving as John Hancock's lieutenant from 1789-1793, Adams took over as governor before retiring in 1797.

T IS FOR TAX

• The British imposed a tax on multiple products in the 13 colonies such as tea.
• The colonies strongly disagreed with these taxes.

U IS FOR UNITED STATES

• United States is a federal republic consisting of 50 states.
• During the revolutionary war, there was only 13 states.

V IS FOR VALLEY FORGE

• Valley Forge was a military camp of the American Continental Army during the winter of 1777-1778.
• Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February.

W IS FOR WASHINGTON

• George Washington was the first president of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the continental army, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

X IS FOR X-TREME BATTLE

• The Americans had a rough time in the battle. The British were much more trained than the Americans.
• The Americans also lacked food, clothing, and warmth.

Y IS FOR YORKTOWN

• The battle of Yorktown ending on October 19, 1781 was a victory by a combined force of American continental army.

Z IS FOR ZEALOUS(PASSIONET)

• During the war, the colonists had more to lose than the British.
• If the British lost, than they would just go back to England. If the colonists lost, then they would go back to England and suffer under King Henry iii.