Explains why the colonies must break away from Britain.
What is the Preamble?
100
Wrote Common Sense; urged colonies to break away from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
First person killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crisps Attucks?
200
Taxes on sugar, coffee, cloth, and anything printed on paper.
What is the Sugar and Stamp Act?
200
Battle where George Washington planned a surprise attack on the enemy camp in New Jersey.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
200
States that people have the right to live, be free, and seek happiness.
What is the Charges Against Human Rights?
200
Prime Minister of Britain; worked to pass the tax on tea.
Who is Lord North?
200
Someone who was loyal to the King.
What is a loyalist?
300
The act that put a tax on tea that the colonists received from the East India Tea Company.
What is the Tea Act
300
Turning point in the War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
300
Longest section of the Declaration of Independence; Lists complains against the King.
What is the Complaints about King George and Parliament?
300
Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Another name for the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Coercive Acts?
400
The group of people who boarded the ships dressed as Native Americans and poured the tea into the harbor.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
400
Battle fought on Breeds Hill.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
Argues that the colonies have to be free to protect the colonist's rights; declares that colonies are independent; delegates signed at the bottom of the document.
What is the Statement of Separation with Signatures?
400
Helped set up the Committee of Correspondence and the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
This groups purpose was to pass news from colony to colony about protests against Britain.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
500
The laws that stopped trade between Britain and Boston, ended most town meetings, gave Britain control over the colony's government, made Americans quarter soldiers.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
Final battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
Explains that people have rights that cannot be taken away and that all men are created equal.
What is the Proclamation of our Rights?
500
Led the First Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
500
Along with Paul Revere, this person warned the colonists that the British were coming.