The Sons of Liberty dressed up as this during the Boston Tea Party.
What are Mohawk Indians?
100
Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
What is Boston Tea Party?
100
The tax on printed goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
He said "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who was Patrick Henry?
200
To refuse to buy or use an item as a way of protesting.
What is boycott?
200
These were hanged in effigy.
What were Stamp Agents?
200
Colonists threw snowballs and rocks at the soldiers. The soldiers lost control and fired into the crowd.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Thought colonists should pay taxes.
Who are King George III and Parliament?
300
Created the first general hospital, the first volunteer fire department, and the first borrowing library.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
300
Local townspeople and farmers ready to fight the British at a minute's notice.
What is minutemen?
300
These two things made the colonists angry.
What are the Proclamation of 1763 and Parliament imposing new taxes?
300
Nine colonies sent representatives to New York do discuss the Stamp Act.
What is Stamp Act Congress?
300
Taxed goods brought to the colonies from Britain, such as glass, paper, tea, and paint.
What is the Townshend Act?
400
Took the Midnight Ride to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
Who was Paul Revere?
400
To openly attack an enemy with either words or weapons.
What is a rebellion?
400
Meant that the British army was moving by ship from Boston Harbor.
What is two lights (lanterns)?
400
A group formed by Samuel Adams to send messages across the colonies.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
400
Closed the Boston Harbor to all shipping until Massachusetts and Boston paid the East India Company for the dumped tea. Also known as the Coercive Acts.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
He was a runaway slave who was the first African American to die for the cause of American liberty.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
500
A German soldier hired to fight for the British.
What is a Hessian?
500
King George III issued this to better control the colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
The start of the American Revolution. No one knows who did it.