1. monarchy
   liberalism
2. equal rights

New World colonists rejected monarchy and aristocracy. They declared that all men were created equal. The British, it’s fair to say, disagreed.

1. 5
   8
2. 13

The Thirteen Colonies in America combined forces in the Declaration of Independence. If they remained united, they might have a fighting chance against the British juggernaut.

1. weaponry of all kinds
   representation
2. gold standard

It was a common gripe amongst the colonists. The British levied huge taxes but didn’t allow the colonists any real representation in their own government. "No taxation without representation" became a real rallying cry.

1. Boston
   Omaha
2. Charlotte

In the 1770 Boston Massacre, British troops fired into an unruly crowd and killed multiple people. Rebel leaders seized on the incident as a way to stoke sentiments against the crown.

1. played very loud music and drank ale
   threw cargo from ships
2. paired tea with scones

Exasperated with Britain’s oppression, colonists clambered aboard ships in Boston Harbor and dumped valuable tea into the water. The British were furious.

1. King George III
   King Henry VIII
2. King Richard I

King George III took the throne in 1760 and reigned during the American Revolution. He was infuriated when he heard the news about the Declaration of Independence.

1. United States Armed Forces
   Continental Army
2. American Army

The colonists organized what was called the Continental Army. They put a respected military man — George Washington — in charge.

1. killed all first-born sons of colonists
   major blockade
2. tried to murder George Washington

After the Tea Party, the British implemented a major blockade of the area. The blockade was no joke and had a terrible impact on colonists — and it rapidly caused tensions to escalate.

1. Intolerable Acts
   Insufferable Silliness
2. Untoward Advances

The British lashed out at colonists after the Boston Tea Party, passing laws that are now called the Intolerable Acts, which were measures meant to punish the colonies. What the Acts really did was throw gasoline on the fire of the Revolution.

1. true
2. false

Fighting had already been raging for months before the Declaration was a done deal. The Declaration added gravity and new purpose to the fight.

1. Battle of Gettysburg
   Battles of Lexington and Concord
2. Battle of the Rhine

On April 19, 1775, British troops clashed with rebels in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The shooting war was officially underway.

1. Boston Massacre
   Colonists attempted to assassinate a general.
2. The British wanted to seize colonists’ weapons.

British troops set off to seize a store of weapons from the colonists. The situation erupted in gunfire and the first bloodshed of the war.

1. local militias
   landmines
2. George Washington’s secret superpowers

The Continental Army worked in tandem with local militias to fight the British. Some of the militias were, at best, kind of bedraggled.

1. an American martyr
   a British commander
2. a French chef

Thomas Gage was the commander of all British forces in America. At the outset of the war, he was severely short of men, but did his best to suppress the rebellion.

1. to fight unfair taxation
   to murder the king
2. to play folk music

The Sons of Liberty was a group that formed to fight the Stamp Act and other unfair forms of taxation. They became symbol of resistance against the crown in the years before the Revolution.

1. 3 months
   12 months
2. 2 years

It’s no wonder the discipline and fighting skills of the militias were lacking. Men signed up for three-month rotations in the militia, not long enough to learn to really fight.

1. executing a plot against Thomas Gage
   alerting colonists to a British advance
2. killing a British officer with his bare hands

On his trusty steed, Revere rode through the night alerting colonists that the British were coming. They gathered their weapons and the result was the start of the shooting war at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

1. They bought them.
   conscription
2. slavery

The British didn’t use a draft. Instead, they actually bought tens of thousands of troops from German royalty — these Hessian mercenaries traveled to America to fight. For American colonists, it was an insult of the highest order.

1. 3 years
   8 years
2. 12 years

At the start of the war, soldiers enlisted for a minimum of one year — by the end of the war, a three-year committment was necessary. Even those stipulations found the army lacking in manpower.

1. British
   colonists
2. indecisive

In Boston, the British won the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they lost an inordinate number of men in the process. The colonists took heart, realizing that the British weren’t indomitable after all.

1. Colonies really loved Britain, mostly because of fun royal weddings.
   Colonists were pacifist hippies.
2. Colonists didn’t trust standing armies.

The very principles of liberty that sparked the Revolution were at odds with the concept of a standing army ... so many men were opposed to joining the force meant to free them from British oppression.

1. zero taxes for the rest of their lives
   promises of land
2. $100,000 guaranteed

Military leaders tried to bait men into serving by offering free land. Even then, many men were less than excited about fighting in the war.

1. Charleston
   New Orleans
2. Los Angeles

It was a devastating defeat, the worst of the war for the colonists. About 10,000 troops surrendered to the British at Charleston, and many wondered whether the Revolution might be lost.

1. Ohio
   Philadelphia
2. Newark

Howe wanted to capture the home of the Second Continental Congress, in Philadelphia. He managed to invade and occupy the city.

1. They mostly deserted.
   They became a better fighting force.
2. Most of them died.

During a brutal winter at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, colonial troops suffered. They also learned new discipline and tactics that made them a much better fighting force.

1. He suffered a heart attack.
   He led a surprise attack.
2. He inspired his men by eating a British officer for lunch.

On Christmas night, Washington led his men across the icy Delware River. They took Hessian troops completely by surprised and captured 1,000 enemies.

1. laid siege to London
   supplied money and arms to colonists
2. organized food drives for starving colonists

In 1776, the French secretly began supplying money and aid to the colonists. Later, the French would become much more active in the fight.

1. He succeeded.
   He surrendered.
2. He misunderstood and went to Canada instead.

Burgoyne’s northern campaign ran into the buzzsaw of colonial resistance ... and he was forced to surrender. His capitulation gave France the confidence to join the war. With France and America working side by side, the British were in serious peril.

1. The French accidentally attacked colonists.
   The colonists were soundly defeated.
2. The British lost an army.

At the Siege of Yorktown, colonial and French troops captured an entire British army. The war was essentially over, and the colonists continued retaking city after city from the redcoats.