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100
Forced colonists to provide quarters for the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
The colonists that remained loyal to the King of England.
who are the loyalists?
100
The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here.
What is Lexington?
100
This group met in Philadelphia to discuss a plan for dealing with Great Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress?
100
This war was fought between the British and the colonists and lasted six years.
What is The American Revolution?
200
Said that the Native Americans could have all the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
The leader of the Continental Army.
Who is General George Washington?
200
Ethan Allen and the colonial militia fought here and captured cannons that later helped the Patriots win other battles.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
200
The Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on this day.
What is July 4, 1776?
200
Who made General George Washington the commander in chief of the Continental Army?
What is the Continental Congress?
300
Shots were fired into a crowd by British soldiers in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
The colonists that volunteered to help fight the British.
What is the militia?
300
After these battles, General Washington refused to surrender and continued to fight against the British.
What are the battles on Long Island and Manhattan?
300
This document was a statement explaining the colonist's decision to become independent or free from British rule.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
300
This state was a key state because it was midway between the New England colonies and the Southern colonies.
What is New York.
400
Colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
400
The main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
This battle convinced the French that the Patriots could still possibly win this war and as a result they offered to help.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
After this battle the British surrendered to General George Washington.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
400
This act put a tax on all paper goods including newspapers and flyers.
What is The Stamp Act?
500
Harsh laws that were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists. One example id the Boston Port Act which closed the Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
Inexperienced and untrained soldiers.
What is the Continental Army?
500
This battle marked the end of the American Revolution.
What is The Battle of Yorktown?
500
The Revolutionary War was fought because the colonist believed in this.
What is "taxation without representation"?
500
This war was fought between the British and the French and caused great trouble for the colonists.
What is The French and Indian War?
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