American Revolution

Taxes

100

This act required an extra tax on a favorite drink of the colonists.

Tea Act

200

This act placed a tax on things made with paper such as documents, newspapers and playing cards.

Stamp Act

300

This act required Colonists to house British soldiers in their homes.

Quartering Act

400

This act placed extra taxes on molasses, a common cooking ingredient during this time.

Sugar Act

500

British Parliament passed many acts that the Colonists deemed 'intolerable' and they were known as this.

Intolerable Acts

Boston Massacre

100

The apprentice who got into a fight with a British soldier on the day of the Boston Massacre had this type of job.

Wigmaker

200

Angry colonists were throwing these items at British soldiers during the Boston Massacre.

Rocks and Snow

300

This is the number of Colonists that were killed during the Boston Massacre

5

400

British soldiers heard this word, which then caused them to kill Colonists.

"Fire!"

500

Paul Revere famously created what type of depiction, showing the British soldiers purposely firing at Colonists.

Engraving or Painting

Tea

100

This is the name of the event where Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor as an act of defiance against the British.

The Boston Tea Party

200

Colonists dressed up as this when they dumped tea into Boston Harbor.

Native Americans

300

This is the name of the tea company that lost a lot of business when colonists stopped buying their tea.

East India Company

400

This is the term that refers to the act of not buying something, like when the colonists refused to buy tea.

Boycott

500

What month did the Boston Tea Party take place?

December

People

100

This is the name of the British leader.

King George

200

This is the name of the leader of the Colonists during the Revolutionary War.

George Washington

300

This man famously went on a "Midnight Ride" to warn colonists about the arrival of the British.

Paul Revere

400

This Patriots leader, organized and led the Boston Tea Party

Samuel Adams

500

This is the term given to any Massachusetts Colonists who could be ready to fight the British at any moment.

Minuteman

Battles

100

This was the first battle of the American Revolution.

Battle of Lexington and Concord.

200

This term refers to the type of weapon that soldiers used to fight during the war.

Musket

300

Hancock and Revere organized a group of these to keep an eye on the activities of British Troops.

Spies

400

This is the war that came before the American Revolution that began many problems between the British and Colonists.

French/Indian War

500

This is the year that the American Revolution officially ended.

1783