Unit 3: American Revolution - Important Events + People

Click the spot that best marks the area that now belonged to United States because of the Treaty of Paris 1783

Put these events in chronological order:

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battles of Lexington + Concord

• France supplies the USA with weapons, ships, and soldiers

TRUE OR FALSE: Winter at Valley Forge was a battle where the Continental Army suffered many casualties.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Match the following person with their correct description

• Deborah Sampson

• 1st Female Historian and Propagandist; wrote poems and plays about the Revolution

• Mercy Otis Warren

• An advocate (supporter) of women's rights and wrote a letter for the founding fathers to "remember the ladies"

• Abigail Adams

• Disguised herself as a man so she could fight in the Continental Army during the Revolution

Match the following person with their correct description:

• Samuel Adams

• Leader and creator of the Sons of Liberty

• Thomas Jefferson

• "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"

• George Washington

• Helped define the unalienable rights by writing the Declaration of Independence

• Patrick Henry

• Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

• Benjamin Franklin

• Ambassador to France; helped convince France to be an ally to the USA

Match the following person with their correct description:

• Baron Von Steuben

• Prussian officer who helped train the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Jewish Polish Patriot who served as a spy and helped finance the war.

• Marquis de Lafayette

• French guy who helped train, command, + supply guns and ships to the Continental Army.

• John Paul Jones

• First Ambassador to France; helped convince France to be our ally.

• Haym Solomon

• Led victories against the British Navy; "Father of the US Navy"

Wrote letters to her husband titled "Remember the Ladies" where she urged him to include women's rights in the creation of the new country

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Abigail Adams

• Martha Washington

• Dolly Madison

African American who also made the Midnight Ride like Paul Revere

• Wentworth Cheswell

• James Armistead

• Samuel Adams

• Abigail Adams

African American who pretended to be a slave in a British camp in order to spy on the British during the war

• Wentworth Cheswell

• Samuel Adams

• James Armistead

• Crispus Attucks

The man helped negotiate an alliance with France during the Revolutionary War

• Thomas Paine

• King George III

• Haym Saloman

• Benjamin Franklin