REVOLUTION'S IN THE AIR - WHOSE AT FAULT?

1. These two Georges thought it would be great to make the colonies share
the cost of empire. ______________________________________________________

2. This fiery orator wrote the Virginia Stamp Act Resolves and probably DID
NOT SAY "If this be treason, make the most of it!" _______________________

3. Stamp distributor hanged in effigy by the Loyal Nine in 1765._____________

4. This Massachusetts lieutenant governor had his house destroyed on August
26, 1765 by a Boston mob. ________________________________________________

5. This chancellor of the exchequer imposed duties and established
additional vice-admiralty courts in 1767. ________________________________

6. This "Pennsylvania Farmer" wrote that Parliament could regulate colonial
trade but not for the purpose of raising revenue. ________________________

7. This new minister persuaded Parliament to repeal the Townshend duties
except for the tax on tea. ______________________________________________

8. He headed the Boston Committee of Correspondence. ________________________

9. These people were also called Loyalists. ________________________________

10. This governor of Virginia offered freedom to any slave or indentured
servant who joined the British forces. _________________________________

11. Alerted the countryside that the Redcoats were coming. __________________

12. Massachusetts militiamen ready for action at a moment's notice. _________

13. He was the American commander at Lexington. _____________________________

14. He was elected president of the Second Continental Congress. ____________

15. He was named commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. ________________

16. They were mercenaries from Germany employed by the British. _____________

17. He was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys. ___________________________

18. He was the American Chief of Artillery. _________________________________

19. His "Common Sense" was published January 10, 1776. ______________________

20. British general who evacuated his troops from Boston, moved them to
Halifax, and eventually to NY City beginning in March, 1776. ____________

21. He introduced a resolution for independency on June 7, 1776. ____________

22. They were the members of the Declaration Committee. _____________________
_________________________________________________________________________

23. He actually wrote most of the Declaration. ____________________________

24. The Declaration was addressed to him. _________________________________

25. He was the American emmissary to France in late 1776. _________________

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26. This French aristocrat volunteered for service with George Washington
and fought until the end of hostilities. ______________________________

27. He secured the Northwest Territory in 1778 by driving the British out
of the Ohio Country? __________________________________________________

28. This American naval commander defeated the British on Sept. 23, 1779. ___________________________

29. He was in charge of the British southern campaign. ____________________

30. He plotted to surrender West Point to the British. ____________________

31. He and his men employed hit-and-run tactics against the British in
South Carolina. _______________________________________________________

THE FIRST GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

32. He was the first governor of the Northwest Territory. _________________

33. This leader of the Miami Confederacy was responsible for the worst
defeat in the history of the American frontier in 1791. _______________

34. He led that American forces at the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. _____

35. He wrote Life of Washington. ________________________________________

36. He was the most well-known portrait painter of the early Republic.
_____________________________

37. She published a series of essays in the 1780's and 1790's arguing the
equal intellectual ability of men and women. She has been called the
"first American feminist". ____________________________________________

38. This free black surveyor, astronomer, and mathematical genius
challenged Jefferson's racial-inferiority premise in 1791. ____________