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This act forced colonists to house troops.
What are the quartering acts?
This founding father would become the first United States president.
Who is George Washington?
This event involved people throwing tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was a tax on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
This state is where the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is Massachusetts?
This king increased these fees to pay for the French and Indian War.
What are taxes?
This man is the author of The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This battle took place in 1775 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
What is the battle of Bunker Hill?
This was a tax on all printed paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
The shot heard around the world happened here.
Where is Lexington and Concord?
This was the rallying cry of Colonists in regards to new taxes.
What is "no taxation without representation?"
This man founded the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This event occured on March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was a tax on certain goods imported into the Colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This is where the Continental Congress was held.
Where is Philadelphia?
A war the cost the colonists the most before the Revolutionary War.
What is The French and Indian War?
This founding father has the biggest signature on The Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
This event ended the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This created a monopoly on tea for the British East India Company.
What is the Tea Act?
Two of the first three presidents were from this state.
Where is Virginia?
This kept Americans from moving west past the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This founding father was the oldest man to sign The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Ben Franklin?
This event proclaimed the colonies as an independent state.
What is the singing of the Declaration of Independence?
These acts were used to punish the Colonists of Massachusetts. (Hint: they have three different names).
What are The Intolerable Acts?
This place is where George Washington and his army suffered through the winter.
Where is Valley Forge?