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:

• Battles of Lexington + Concord

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Battle of Saratoga

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

• Battle of Yorktown

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

• Mercy Otis Warren

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

• Deborah Sampson

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

• Abigail Adams

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

Match the following person with their correct description:

• Samuel Adams

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

• Patrick Henry

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

• George Washington

• Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

• Thomas Jefferson

• Leader and creator of the Sons of Liberty

• Benjamin Franklin

• "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"

Match the following person with their correct description:

• Benjamin Franklin

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

• John Paul Jones

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

• Baron Von Steuben

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

• Haym Solomon

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

• Marquis de Lafayette

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

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