The Revolutionary War

Proclamation of 1763

________: The British government prohibited colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains, which angered many who had already settled there.

Intolerable Acts

________: In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British government passed a series of laws that restricted the colonists 'rights and freedoms.

Yorktown

________: The final battle of the war, in which the British army surrendered to the combined forces of the Americans and French.

Benjamin Franklin

________: Diplomat who helped secure French support for the American cause.

Lexington

________ and Concord: The first shots of the war were fired in 1775 at ________ and Concord, Massachusetts.

George Washington

________: Commander- in- chief of the Continental Army and later the first President of the United States.

Saratoga

________: This battle was a turning point in the war, as it convinced France to join the American cause.

Thomas Jefferson

________: Author of the Declaration of Independence.

Boston Massacre

________: In 1770, British soldiers fired on a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five people.

1783

The Treaty of Paris, signed in ________, officially ended the war and recognized the United States as an independent nation.

Great Britain

It was a conflict between ________ and its thirteen North American colonies, which had declared themselves independent as the United States of America.