Important Places
By Order of the King
Turning Points
Which Happened First?
Vocabulary
100
This city was the site of the first well-documented conflict between British soldiers that ended in violence (March 5, 1770)
What is Boston Massachusetts?
100
Colonists were upset with the British government when they did this--(requiring the colonists to pay extra money without having a say in how it was used).
What is taxation without representation?
100
This document was written to state the colonists wanted freedom from British rule and to explain the reasons why.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Which happened first, the Proclamation of 1763 or the Quartering Act?
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
Term for a colonist who wanted independence from England.
What is patriot?
200
This city was where delegates to the First Continental Congress met to discuss their complaints against the King of England and to decide that they would come together in unity to fight oppression by the English government.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
200
This law passed by Parliament required colonists to provide housing, food, and transportation for soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
This was the name of a meeting held in 1774 where delegates voiced their complaints against King George the Third and agreed that they would fight against the British.
What is the First Continental Congress?
200
Which happened first, the Boston Massacre or the Stamp Act?
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Term for someone who believed that the American Colonies should remain under British rule.
What is loyalist?
300
This city was the site of a major Patriot protest in response to heavy taxes the English government placed on tea.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
300
This law required colonists to pay taxes on all paper goods along with other everyday items.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, convinced many colonists that independence from England was a good idea.
What is "Common Sense"?
300
Which happened first, the Intolerable Acts or the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
term for the kind of army made up of volunteers from local cities and towns.
What is militia?
400
This city was where delegates came together and ratified the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
400
This law forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
This is the name of the meeting in 1774 where delegates ratified (agreed upon and signed) a very important document declaring freedom from British rule.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
400
Which happened first, the Battle of Yorktown or the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
What is the battle of Lexington & Concord?
400
A person who represents others at a convention or conference.
What is delegate?
500
These two towns in Massachusetts were the grounds of the first major battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
500
This term is given to a group of laws imposed upon the colonists by the British government in an attempt to force them into obedience. The colonists hated these laws and gave them their own name (either name for these laws is acceptable).
What are the Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts?
500
This country eventually agreed to send aid to the American Colonies in the form of weapons and money (and later troops and ships).
What is France?
500
Which happened first, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
To protest by refusing to use or buy something.
What is boycott?
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