This act was passed in 1765 and taxed printed materials like documents, letters, newspapers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Colonists wanting their independence called this group of men "Patriots". The British viewed them as "terrorists" or "mongrels".
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
This colony was created as a buffer between British and Spanish territory. Most of its citizens were convicts.
What is Georgia?
100
I am one possible cause of King George III's bad decisions in dealing with the Colonies.
What is insanity?
100
This punishment was often inflicted on tax collectors that the Colonists didn't want to pay. Many victims of this punishment were injured, humiliated, and sometimes killed.
What is "tar-and-feathering"?
200
These acts was passed in 1767 and placed a tariff (or tax) on imported goods like paper, wool, and tea.
What are The Townshend Acts?
200
The Colonists called people who stayed loyal to the British government "Tories". The British called them this.
What are "loyalists"?
200
The British defeated this country in a war involving the Colonists, the British, the French, and the Native Americans. This country lost.
What is France?
200
I suffered from an unusual disease with unusual symptoms due to too much intermarriage in my family.
Who is King George III?
200
The Colonists disguised themselves as this group of early Americans before dumping crates of British tea in Boston Harbor.
Who are Indians/Native Americans/Mohawks?
300
This act was passed in 1773 and established that the Colonies would only be able to purchase tea from one British company. The results of the act would eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
300
We call him our first president. Back then, he was known as a great general and military leader.
Who is George Washington?
300
This group of tribes and this group of people helped the British win the French Indian War. Who are they?
Who are the Five Nations Native Americans and the Colonists?
300
This important founding document started as a letter of grievances (complaints) directed at King George III and written by Thomas Jefferson and others.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
I am the man who let the Sons of Liberty know that the British were preparing to step up their efforts to invade and control the Colonies?
Who is Paul Revere?
400
This act was passed in 1765. Believe it or not, many Colonists didn't enjoy housing soldiers in their private homes and being responsible for feeding and sheltering them.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
Colonists like Thomas Jefferson referred to this British ruler as a "tyrant". His loyal subjects called him "Your Highness".
Who is King George III?
400
England viewed this group of people as "mongrels" and "rebels" acting childish when they began to resist more new taxes from the British government.
Who are the Colonists?
400
This military branch is what allowed King George to exercise control over large portions of the world England had recently colonized.
What is the British Navy?
400
On March 5th, 1770, a crowd of angry Colonists began hurling insults, snowballs, and rocks at British soldiers before the soldiers fired into the crowd.
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
These "coercive acts" returned British soldiers who had left Boston after the Boston Massacre, blockaded the Boston harbor, and placed Massachusetts under martial law.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
This slogan was called a battle cry by the Patriots. The British called it rebellion and treason.
What is "No taxation without representation!" ?
500
We were called "lobster-backs" for most of the time we spent in the Colonies because of our bright-red uniforms.
Who are British soldiers?
500
I am the event that led to King George blockading Boston Harbor, putting Massachusetts under martial law, and returning soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre back to the city.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
These two cities were under fire by the Colonists and the British in April of 1775. The early battles are often called "the shot heard around the world". The British had a difficult time fighting near these two cities because they used old Napoleonic tactics and wore bright red uniforms when facing a camouflaged enemy fighting on their home turf.