Road to War
This war between Britain and France left Britain with a large debt and helped lead to new taxes on the colonies.
In 1773, colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest British tea policies, which was later called this.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This Massachusetts town was the site of the first battles of the American Revolution in April 1775.
What is Lexington? (I will accept Concord)
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that the colonies should break away from Britain.
What is "Common Sense"?
This European nation became an important ally of the Americans during the Revolution.
Who is France?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
This 1765 law taxed printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1770, British soldiers killed five colonists in this event in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was a famous headline that followed the battles of Lexington and Concord - claiming that everyone could hear this, especially since no one knew who had actually done it first.
What is "The shot heard 'round the world"?
This 1776 document announced that the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This American commander led the Continental Army for most of the war.
Who is George Washington?
Colonists used this phrase to protest taxes imposed by a government in which they had no elected representatives.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
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Britain passed these harsh laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party, including closing Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Each colony had one of these - a small group of soldiers, most of them newly trained.
What is a militia?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the Declaration with ideas about natural rights and government by consent.
Who is John Locke?
The name of the military force of the American colonies.
What is the Continental Army?
This was passed in 1763, which banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line?
Colonists used this method of protest by refusing to buy British goods in response to British taxes.
What is boycott?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
At this 1775 battle, British troops fought colonial militia on a hill near Boston. The British won the ground but suffered heavy casualties.
What is Bunker Hill?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
This Enlightenment idea argues that people possess these simply because they are human.
What are natural rights?
This 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent nation.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This is the word used for the forced housing of red coat soldiers in the homes of Boston.
What is quartering?
Some colonists, upset over the acts, began doing this - which means carrying illegal goods into the continent without paying a tax on them.
What is smuggling?
This famous saying, attributed to a commander at Bunker Hill, basically said this:
"Can you not shoot the enemy until you're close? Please?"
What is "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
According to the Declaration of Independence, governments get their power from this (or... them).
Who is the people (or governed)?
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This 1781 battle in Virginia ended with British General Cornwallis surrendering to American and French forces.
What is Yorktown?