Acts
Rebellions
War Starts
People
Miscellaneous
100
This act was supposed to get the colonist to pay the low tax and not smuggle.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
Tea was thrown into this city's harbor as a major act of rebellion.
What is Boston?
100
Colonial soldiers that were trained to be ready very quickly were known as this.
What are minutemen?
100
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
100
This group told colonists to make their own clothes so that they wouldn't have to rely on England.
What were the Daughters of Liberty?
200
According to the Stamp Act, this required a stamp.
What is printed material?
200
This protest group told colonists to boycott British goods.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
200
The very first battle of the American Revolution was at this city.
What is Lexington?
200
Britain's prime minister to created the writs of assistance to stop smuggling.
Who was George Grenville?
200
Every colony sent a delegate to Philadelphia for the Continental Congress except for this colony.
What is Georgia?
300
This act placed a tax on anything imported, but specifically glass, tea and paper.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
Because of the Tea Act, this company was given complete control of the tea market, which eventually led to many rebellions.
What is the East India Company?
300
These two men rode through the towns in Massachusetts warning colonists the British were coming.
Who were William Dawes and Paul Revere?
300
This king passed the Proclamation of 1763, not allowing colonists to move west past the Appalachians.
Who was King George III?
300
This group wrote letters to friends in other cities to complain about the British.
What is the committee of correspondence?
400
These acts were renamed the Intolerable Acts by the colonists.
What were the Coercive Acts?
400
This was the very first act of rebellion against the British in which 5 colonists died.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
This British General was ordered to check for militia's weapons at Concord.
Who was Thomas Gage?
400
He was one of the main leaders of the Sons of Liberty.
Who was Samuel Adams?
400
In this battle Colonel Prescott tells his minutemen, "Do not fire until you see the whites in their eyes".
What is The Battle of Bunker Hill?
500
The Quebec Act created a new government for Canada and established British rule throughout this river valley.
What is Ohio?
500
He was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
500
He led the militia at the Battle of Lexington.
Who was Captain John Parker?
500
A colonist who wanted freedom and was against the British was known as this.
What is a Patriot?
500
This was a peace offering given to King George III by the Continental Congress, but he refused.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
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