At Albany meeting, Benjamin Franklin suggested what plan.
What was the Albany Plan of Union?
100
A tax put on several products including molasses in 1764.
What was the Sugar Act?
100
British General who became trapped at Yorktown and surrendered in 1781.
Who is General Cornwallis?
100
These soldiers boasted that they could be ready to fight in one minute.
What were minutemen?
200
"I have not yet begun to fight".
Who was John Paul Jones?
200
The words on the political cartoon made by Benjamin Franklin with pieces of a snake above the words.
What is "Join or Die"?
200
These troops got paid to fight.
Who were regular soldiers?
200
The leader of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
200
This event happened in Boston beginning with "bullying" and ending with 5 Americans dead in 1770.
What was the Boston Massacre?
300
"Taxation without representation is tyranny"
Who was James Otis?
300
Where the British lost to the French and General Braddock died leaving a young George Washington in charge.
What is Fort Dequesne?
300
Parliament passed in 1765 this to require colonists to house and feed "regulars" from Britain sent to enforce the Proclamation of 1763.
What was the Quartering Act?
300
Von Steuben and ___________ gave their leadership abilities along with Washington to improve the soldiers that survived the hard winter at Valley Forge.
Who was Lafayette?
300
This group organized by Samuel Adams supported freedom for the colonists and was led by men like Paul Revere.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
400
"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country".
Who was Nathan Hale?
400
After this key battle, the French began to be defeated in the French and Indian War.
What was the Battle of Quebec?
400
This required a special marking be placed on many paper products including playing cards placed in 1765.
What was the Stamp Act?
400
Wrote pamphlet "Common Sense" that helped convince colonists to want to leave Britain's control.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
A person who supported the cause of freedom was called this.
What is a Patriot?
500
"We shall all hang together or surely we will all hang separately."
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
500
The document that ended the French and Indian War which was part of the Seven Years War.
What was the Treat of Paris of 1763?
500
What the group of acts placed on the colonies (especially Boston) in 1774 was called by the colonists .
What was the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
500
A colonist who wrote satirical plays against the British.
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
500
This delegate from Massachusetts served on the committee that helped write the Declaration of Independence.