American Revolution Terms/Vocab
American Revolution - Causes
American Revolution - Battles/Events
American Revolution - People
American Revolution - Declaration of Independence
American Revolution - Documents/Acts/Laws
100

It is the name for someone in the colonies who supported the American Revolution.

What is a PATRIOT

100

This law required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.

What is the QUARTERING ACT

100

The first battle of the American Revolution

What is Lexington & Concord?

100

He was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

Who is GEORGE WASHINGTON

100

Document written by Thomas Jefferson in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain 

What is the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 

100

This document officially ended the American Revolution as an agreement of peace.

What is the TREATY OF PARIS

200

The strategy of refusing to purchase goods in the hopes of weakening a group

What is a boycott

200

This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.

What is the BOSTON MASSACRE

200

After this victory, France was convinced the colonists could win and joined the war

What is SARATOGA

200

Who wrote Common Sense?

Thomas Paine

200

The Declaration said all people have the right to these three things

What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

200

What was Common Sense?

What is a pamphlet that convinced Americans to support independence?

300

The British soldiers' uniforms were a bright color and made the soldiers easier to see.  For this reason, they were given a colorful nickname.

What are the REDCOATS

300

This conflict sent the British into a large amount of debt

What is the French & Indian War?

300

This was the place Washington and his soldiers spent Winter, a miserable and deadly place for his men.

What is VALLEY FORGE

300

She wrote poetry and plays against the British

Who is MERCY OTIS WARREN

300

The date the Declaration of Independence was signed

July 4th, 1776

300

This law prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains after the F&I War

What is the Proclamation of 1763? (Appalachian, Proclamation!)

400

What is the British government called? (legislature, bicameral)

What is PARLIAMENT?

400

Laws imposed by British parliament as a punishment for Massachusettes' actions in the Boston Tea Party

What are the INTOLERABLE ACTS

400

Washington crossed this river and beat the Hessians in this town for the first colonist vistory

What is DELAWARE AND TRENTON

400

Father of the United States Navy

Who is JOHN PAUL JONES?

400

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”

What is this in reference to?

What is the QUARTERING ACT?

400

These Acts were meant to Coerce the colonists into doing what Britain wanted. They were designed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

DOUBLE: List the three major parts of these Acts

What are the Intolerable Acts?

DOUBLE: Close Boston Harbour, Dissolve legislatures, Quartering Act

500

England/Britain's approach to the colonies where they left the colonies alone and allowed them to do their own thing

DOUBLE: What did this end up helping?

What is SALUTARY NEGLECT?

500

Complete this famous phrase that was a rallying call for the colonist when fighting against the acts imposed by Britain.  "No taxation....

 What is "WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"

500

The war ended when the British lost this battle

What is YORKTOWN

500

This British general led the march through New York, before ultimately losing at Saratoga

What is GENERAL BURGOYNE

500

"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly…"

He has attacked our governments by dissolving our legislatures (or some such response)

500

What laws passed indirect taxes on everyday goods & included the Writs of Assistance?

What are the TOWNSHEND ACTS?

600

A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army

+50 points: name of the soldiers hired by the British

What is a MERCENARY or HESSIAN

600

Meeting in which a group of delegates (representatives) acted as the government for the American colonies and declared Independence.

Who is the SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

600

"Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!"

What battle & who said this?

What is BUNKER HILL and WILLIAM PRESCOTT?

600

This Enlightenment thinker inspired some of the key ideas of the Declaration of Independence

DOUBLE: What were his words on people's rights?

Who was JOHN LOCKE?

DOUBLE: Life, liberty, property

600

These are the 3 parts of the Declaration of Independence

An introduction statement, a list of all the things they have done to us (grievances), final declaration that we are free


600

What act was a direct response to colonial petitions & the Stamp Act Congress?

What is the DECLARATORY ACT?

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