This event started with snowballs and colonists shouting at British soldiers and ended in colonists dying and revolutionary ideas growing.
What is Boston Massacre?
100
A tax was placed on this product and colonists could only purchase this product from the British East Indies Company, this resulted in a famous Party in the Boston Harbor.
What is tea?
100
The chosen commander in chief of the Continental Army was this man.
Who is George Washington?
100
The first part of the Declaration is known as this. It explained why the Declaration was needed.
What is preamble?
200
A sudden change of government.
What is revolution?
200
This was not a violent event, but there was a lot of tea dumped into the harbor as a form of patriotic protest against the British.
What is Boston Tea Party?
200
This angered the colonists because they were no longer allowed to settle or move West of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is Proclamation of 1763.
200
This person was the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This was the crime committed by the colonists if they signed the Declaration of Independence.
What is treason?
300
To refuse to buy something
What is boycott?
300
The is the name given to the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
This was passed and resulted in taxes being placed on most paper products in the colonies.
What is Stamp Act?
300
This delegate from Virginia stood at the Second Continental Congress and motioned that the Declaration of Independence be written.
Who is Richard Henry Lee
300
This is the day month and year the Declaration was approved by the Second Continental Congress. We still celebrate this today.
What is July 4, 1776?
400
A signed request.
What is a petition?
400
"The Shot Heard Around the World" is a famous quote that came from this conflict in which came as a result of the British searching for arms in 2 cities.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
Under this, the colonists could be forced to house and provide supplies to British Soldiers.
What is Quartering Act?
400
Because of this person, people read Common Sense and were more motivated to argue for independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
This country would be asked for help by the colonists to help fight against the British now that they were officially independent.
What is France?
500
To act of speak for someone else.
What is representation?
500
This famous war caused the British government to have increased war debt that would lead to a series of higher taxes placed on the American colonists.
What is French and Indian War?
500
The British government passed a series of acts called the Coercive Acts, which angered the colonists so much that they named them the...
What is Intolerable Acts?
500
This was was the King of England during the time of the American Revolution.
Who is King George?
500
The Declaration was actually signed on this day, month and year.