The event that cost England a lot of money and caused the King to impose new taxes on the colonist?
What is The French and Indian War?
100
A secret organization made up of merchants and journalists formed to protest unfair taxes.
What is The Sons of Liberty?
100
Is credited for writing the Declaration of Independence.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The first conflict of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
100
First woman to write poems and stories about people fighting for freedom. She wrote history of the American Revolution.
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
200
Who won the war?
What is the Americans?
200
The Sons of Liberty did this to British soldiers and it initiated The Boston Massacre.
What is threw rock and snowballs?
200
The first to sign the Declaration of Independence very large so the king could read it.
Who is John Hancock?
200
This country supported the Americans during the Revolutionary War.
What is France?
200
Rode more than 40 miles to tell Americans of a British attack.
Who is Sybil Ludington?
300
Remained loyal to the king.
What is a Loyalist?
300
Members of The Sons of Liberty dressed up in disguise and dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
300
The Declaration of Independence was a way for the colonist to respond to the tyranny and abuse of power by him.
Who is King George III?
300
Very hard winter where soldiers were short on supplies, clothes, and food.
What is Winter at Valley Forge?
300
Dressed as a man so she could fight in the war.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
400
Someone who supported independence.
What is a Patriot?
400
The main reason the African Americans fought in the Revolutionary War.
What is they were promised their freedom.
400
The day the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is July 4, 1776?
400
This battle convinced the French to join in the war to help the Americans.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
Argued for freedom in letters she wrote to her husband, John, and cared for homeless children.
Who is Abigail Adams?
500
Representatives from the colonies met again in Philadelphia and agreed to break away from England, become an independent nation, and write a document that declared independence.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
500
The colonists had no voice in parliament where new laws and taxes were made and imposed on them. As a result the colonists began to use this slogan.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?
500
The number of days it took to write the Declaration of Independence.
What is 17?
500
In 1781, the continental Army defeated the British for the final time at Yorktown, Virginia. What leader surrendered to General George Washington?
Who is General Cornwallis?
500
First African American women to have writing published.