Revolutionary Vocab
Key Events/Battles
Important People
"Acts"
Key Places
100
This word means freedom.
What is liberty?
100
This event occurred because Colonists were upset with Britain's tax on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
He was a Patriot spy who was caught and hanged.
Who is Nathan Hale?
100
This act placed a tax on molasses and sugar. It is also know as the first of the British "acts."
What is the Sugar Act?
100
This place was the site of a massacre and a tea party.
What is Boston?
200
Colonists who opposed British rule were called this.
What is a Patriot?
200
This was the last BIG battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
200
He was the commander of the Colonial Army.
Who is George Washington?
200
This person placed taxes on the Colonists.
Who is King George III?
200
This was the site of the last big battle of the American Revolution.
What is Yorktown?
300
This word means to fight for a foreign country.
What is a mercenary?
300
This battle gave Britain control of the Ohio River Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
He as an African American and one of five people killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
300
This act placed a tax on anything printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
This is the river that George Washington crossed to get to Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
400
This word means written communication.
What is correspondence?
400
This event/document gave the Colonists independence and land.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
He betrayed the Patriots because they didn't give him what he wanted.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
This act placed a tax on paint, lead and many other goods.
What is the Townshend Acts?
400
This is the place where Paul Revere was caught after a famous battle.
What is Lexington?
500
This vocabulary word started the American Revolution.
What is a tax?
500
Because of this victory the French and other nations decided to join the Patriots.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
500
He was the creator of the "Join or Die" cartoon.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
What act placed a tax on coffee, cloth and other goods.
What is the Sugar Act?
500
This quote was used here, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
What is Bunker Hill?
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