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This battle was known as the shot heard round the world.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This is what you call an American colonist who supported independence from Britain.
What is a Patriot?
What did the Declaratory Act do?
What is it allowed the British to tax what they want when they want?
What was the Sugar Act?
What is a tax on sugar and molasses?
This person was the founder of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This person wrote the pamphlet Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This is what you call a colonist who did not support independence from Britain.
What is a Loyalist?
This is another name for a loyalist.
What is a Torie?
What was the Stamp Act?
What is a tax on printed documents like letters, newspapers, and legal documents?
This person made the famous midnight ride to warn colonists that "the regulars are out".
Who is Paul Revere?
This British proclamation forbid American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This is what allowed British troops to search Colonists' homes and businesses for smuggled items.
What are Writs of Assistance?
What was the Townshend Act?
What is a British law taxing imported goods?
This is what the colonists called the Coercive Acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The name for the German Mercenaries that were hired to fight the Colonial Army.
What is Hessians?
This was the name of the strategy that called for colonists to not buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
What is they used Propaganda?
What was the Boston Tea Party?
What is when members of the Sons of Liberty threw crates of tea into Boston Harbor?
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
What is a last ditch attempt by the colonists to achieve their objectives and avoid war?
The most famous enlightenment thinker and oldest founder.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Which side did most people in East and West Florida support? Patriots or Loyalists?
What are loyalists?
This was our youngest founding father and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was the Boston Massacre?
What is when 5 colonists were killed by British soldiers?
What was the Tea Act?
What is it raised the price of American tea with a tax?
The Continental Congress that raised a Colonial Army with George Washington in charge.
What is the Second Continental Congress?