Taxes & Acts
This act was repealed (100 for each answer)
Townshend, Stamp
What did the colonists have that were considered "weapons"?
Snowballs and clubs (100 for each answer)
Which battle involved Washington crossing the Delaware?
Battle at Trenton
Top general of Continental Army
George Washington
Discovered the heliocentric model
Copernicus
Placed a tax on imported tea, glass, and paper
Townshend Act
How did the colonists carry out the Boston Tea Party?
They disguised themselves as Native Americans and snuck onto the ship.
Which battle included General Cornwallis surrendering and signaled the war was ending?
Battle of Yorktown
Surrendered at Saratoga
General Burgoyne
Believed in separation of Church and State.
Voltaire
What effects did the Tea Act have on the colonists?
300 per answer
1. Caused the Boston Tea Party
2. Hurt local merchants
3. Allowed East India Company to do business
Daily Double!
What did the British do after the Tea Party?
Possible Answers:
1. Closed Boston Harbor
2. Issued the Coercive/Intolerable Act
3. Expanded Quartering Act
Name of the peace agreement between American and British government?
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Top British generals
Generals Howe & Clinton (300 per general)
Father of the geocentric model, the concept the Church accepted.
Ptolemy
How did the colonists respond to the Stamp Act?
Representatives decided that only elected officials can approve taxes
How did the colonists *initially* protest the Tea Act?
Bought and drank cheaper, Dutch tea
What role did Benjamin Franklin have in the Revolutionary War?
He managed to convince the French to support the Continental Army.
Sons of Liberty
Using a microscope, He discovered cells.
Robert Hooke
What led to the First Continental Congress being created?
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
What occurred during the Boston Massacre that led to differing accounts?
Did the British fire first, or did the colonists attack the soldiers?
What was the British strategy that was supposed to turn the tide of the war?
Cut off the army in the North, find alliances in the Southern colonies.
In charge of soldiers during Boston Massacre
Capt. Preston
The topic of Hobbes's book, The Leviathan?
"Popular sovereignty"