When deciding to declare independence or not, one group disagreed with independence from Great Britain. They were called ___________.

When deciding to declare independence or not, this group felt that Great Britain should no longer rule the colonies.

Thomas Hutchinson was a Loyalist __________.

This leader patiently tried to persuade the British government to stop making laws that the colonists thought were unfair. He did help convince the government to repeal the Stamp Act. But Great Britain continued to pass unfair laws. At last, he went home and became a Patriot leader.

Mercy Otis Warren was known as a "Patriot with a ___________."

In May 1775, fighting between the British and the colonists began in Massachusetts. Each colony sent delegates to the _____________ in Philadelphia. This became the government for the colonies.

The most urgent task of the Second Continental Congress was to _______________.

The Second Continental Congress quickly chose a good soldier and a strong leader by the name of ________________________________.

__________ was only 33 years old, but he was already known as a fine writer and thinker. His fellow committee members asked him to write a draft of a declaration of independence.

On ______________, Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to the public for the first time on July 8 in this city.

The _____________ army was small and untrained.

The _____________ won most of the early battles in the Revolution.

The British army was large and trained. The British also had many _________.

Great Britain hired many mercenaries from Germany. What is a mercenary?

The Continental Army had a special advantage over the British: _____________________.

The Battle of Yorktown was the last big battle of the war. With the help of their French allies, the ___________ had won a key victory.

In September 1783, the war finally ended with the _______________.

After the Revolution, the _______________ was a document that set up the nation's first central government.

In May 1787, 55 delegates met in Philadelphia. Their plan was to improve the Articles of Confederation. Instead, they wrote an entirely new document. This new document is called the __________________.

The Constitutional Convention created a federal system. This meant that power was divided between state governments and a strong national government. They separated the power of the national government into three parts, or ______________.

The head of the _______________ branch is the president.

The first 10 amendments, or changes, to the Constitution are called the _________________.

Many people fought to approve, or make amendments to, the Constitution because they felt ___________.