This was the first direct tax placed on the American colonists.
What is The Stamp Act?
100
British soldiers fired their guns into the crowd of Americans who were protesting the new tax on tea in this city.
What is Boston?
100
These groups helped unify the American colonies so they could communicate with each other about protesting the British government.
Who were the committees of correspondence?
100
When American colonists destroyed thousands of dollars worth of British tea, it was called the _______________.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
100
The had a much bigger army in the American Revolution.
Who were The British?
200
These groups organized protests against The Stamp Act.
Who were The Sons of Liberty?
200
This treaty ended the war between France and Britain in 1763.
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
200
This act helped make British tea cheaper in America and hurt American tea merchants.
What is The Tea Act of 1773?
200
These acts were made by the British government to try to stop the American colonies from breaking British laws/rules.
What are The Coercive Acts?
200
This nation made an alliance with America and helped win the American Revolution.
What is France?
300
This war between France and Britain decided who would be the dominant power in North America.
What is The French and Indian War?
300
Another name for taxes on imports and exports.
What are customs duties?
300
This was the name given to American colonists who wanted to keep following British laws and the king.
What is a Loyalist?
300
The first two battles of the American Revolution were fought in these two American towns.
What is Lexington and Concord?
300
This was the last battle of the American Revolution.
What is The Battle of Yorktown?
400
After winning the war to become the dominant power in North America, the British government want the American colonies to ________________
What help pay for the cost of the war?
400
The British government did this to The Stamp Act and The Townshend Acts because of so much protest by the American colonists.
What is repeal (cancel) them?
400
Those American colonists who wanted a revolution were called ____________.
What is a Patriot?
400
This meeting of American leaders decided to make an army and make George Washington its leader.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
400
This Treaty ended the American Revolution.
What is The 1783 Treaty of Paris?
500
As a protest against the new taxes, the American colonists united in a _____________ of British imports.
What is a boycott?
500
This was the name of a rule made by the British government in 1763 telling the American colonists they could not take over land on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Royal Proclamation of 1763?
500
This group of American leaders decided to organize a boycott British goods in all of the colonies.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
The leaders of the American colonies chose him to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
This was the turning point (most important) battle of the American Revolution.