________: The British government prohibited colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains, which angered many who had already settled there.
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Intolerable Acts
________: In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British government passed a series of laws that restricted the colonists 'rights and freedoms.
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Yorktown
________: The final battle of the war, in which the British army surrendered to the combined forces of the Americans and French.
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Benjamin Franklin
________: Diplomat who helped secure French support for the American cause.
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Lexington
________ and Concord: The first shots of the war were fired in 1775 at ________ and Concord, Massachusetts.
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George Washington
________: Commander- in- chief of the Continental Army and later the first President of the United States.
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Saratoga
________: This battle was a turning point in the war, as it convinced France to join the American cause.
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Thomas Jefferson
________: Author of the Declaration of Independence.
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Boston Massacre
________: In 1770, British soldiers fired on a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five people.
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1783
The Treaty of Paris, signed in ________, officially ended the war and recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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Great Britain
It was a conflict between ________ and its thirteen North American colonies, which had declared themselves independent as the United States of America.
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