Colonial Acts and Taxes
This act required colonists to pay a tax on paper goods such as newspapers, playing cards, and licenses.
What is the Stamp Act?
Frustrated by Britain’s changing tea taxes, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor during this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document officially granted independence to the American colonists.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Washington crossed the Delaware River and surprised the German Hessians during this battle.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
This group provided clothing, food, and supplies while managing their homes and farms.
Who are women?
This 1763 law forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1770 event began when colonists threw snowballs and rocks at British soldiers, who fired and killed five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was the first truth stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What is “All men are created equal”?
Washington’s troops defended a hill but ran out of gunpowder, allowing the British to win this battle.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This group helped shape the Revolution through hard work and determination, even with few resources.
Who are soldiers?
This act increased taxes on non-British sugar and strengthened enforcement against smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
This British response to the Boston Tea Party restricted trade and increased control over Boston.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This was the second truth stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What is “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”?
These first battles of the Revolution began when British soldiers tried to seize colonial weapons.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Free and enslaved individuals from this group contributed to the war effort hoping it might bring freedom.
Who are African Americans?
These acts closed Boston Harbor, shut down the Massachusetts legislature, and increased British military control.
What are the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)?
This event increased anger toward British rule and united many colonists against the Crown after British troops opened fire.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These core principles in the Declaration express the Enlightenment concept of inherent natural rights.
What are unalienable rights?
This battle encouraged the French to join the Americans as allies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This group had to choose sides because they feared losing their land.
Who are Native Americans?
These acts placed taxes on imported goods such as glass, paint, paper, cloth, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This colonial protest involved destroying British goods in a dramatic act of resistance.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This section of a document serves as the introduction, explaining its principles and philosophies.
What is the Preamble?
This final major battle trapped the British in Virginia and forced their surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Troops, money, ships, and military assistance were provided by this group, helping secure victories like Yorktown.
Who are foreign allies?
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Who are the French/France?