People
Geography
Vocabulary
Events
Conflicts
100
The Commander and Chief of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
100
Where the Pilgrims landed in the "New World."
What is Plymouth?
100
Militia who were to stand ready in case of British attack.
Who were the Minutemen?
100
Group of colonists dressed as indians and dumped 342 chests of English tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
The 13 colony's war for independence.
What is the Revolutionary War?
200
The author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The successful English colony in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
200
The first shot at Lexington Mass. on April 19, 1775.
What is the shot heard 'round the world?
200
The war that ended French control of land east of the Mississippi river.
What is French and Indian War?
300
He was the ambassador to France during the revolutionary war.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
Location of the opening shots of the revolutionary war.
What is Lexington Massachusetts?
300
A type of cloth produced by the wives and daughters of the Patriot movement.
What is Homespun cloth?
300
In March 1770 a group of British soldiers fires into a crowd of rowdy demonstrators, killing five men.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
An indian rebellion against colonial expansion west of the Appalachians that led to the Proclamation of 1763.
What is Pontiac's rebellion?
400
The author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
Location where 3000 British Troops attacked American fortifications outside of Boston.
What is Bunker Hill?
400
A political ideology that repudiates rule by Kings and celebrates a representative system of government.
What is Republicanism?
400
The victory that essentially ended the revolutionary war.
What is Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown?
400
A struggle about debt, after the Revolutionary War, led by a former officer in the Continental army.
What is Shays Rebellion?
500
Remembered for his, "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech.
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
The American victory that became the turning point of the revolutionary war occured here.
What is Saratoga?
500
The Enlightenment belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws.
What is Deism?
500
The treaty that officially ended any British claim to the 13 colonies.
What is the Treaty of Paris in1783?
500
Armed resistance against colonial tax that was surpressed by George Washington in 1794.
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
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