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This group of Americans opposed the British and had an extreme sense of national pride. They were the opposite of the Loyalists.
Who are the American Patriots?
100

This act lowered the price of molasas

What is the Sugar act?

100

These battlegrounds in Massachusetts began the Revolutionary war

What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

100

The Stamp Act required stamps to be put onto all types of this.

What is Paper?

100
This Virginia delegate wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Private colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were also known for being ready in a moment's notice.
Who are minutemen?
200

This pamphlet, written by TPaine, argued that it made sense for America to break away from Britain

What is Common Sense?

200
Food shortages at this “camp” created hardships for George Washington and his men - George Washington was packing to go here when the Declaration of Independence was being debated in Philadelphia.
What is Valley Forge?
200

This act forced the colonists to provide housing for british soldiers

What is the Quartering Act?

200

This popular propagandist wrote “Common Sense”

Who is Thomas Paine?

300

This secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.

Who are the Sons of Liberty?

300

This doctrine, that the colonies would be left alone by britain, ended in the years leading up to the revolution

What is the Salutary Neglect

300

 This final battle of the war included the surrender of general Cornwallis

What is Yorktown?

300

The townsend acts effectively taxed any type of this. 

What are imports?

300

This man was the first to die in the Boston Massacre. 

Who is Crispus Attucks?

400

These group argued for a provision regarding individual rights be added to the constitution

Who are the Anti-federalists

400

This document, was weak and Americas first form of a governing document

What is the Articles of Confederation?

400

Name of the coalition of 6 tribes that ultimately decided to remain enutral during the war

What is Iroqouis Confederacy 

400

The Sugar Act was passed to combat what illegal activity?

What is smuggling?

400

The Tea Act gave this company a virtual monopoly of tea in British North America.

What is the British East India Company ?

500

This state decided not to send a delegate to the constitutional convention. 

What is Rhode Island?

500

This meeting in Philadelphia was planned in order to ammend the AoC

What is the Constitutional Convention

500

The patriot victory and resulting French alliance which occurred during this battle made it a turning point

What is Saratoga

500

In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British passed a series of acts to punish Massachusetts, known as these.

What are the Coercive acts?

500

This later Patriot defended the British soldiers accused of killing American colonists in the Boston Massacre.

Who is John Adams?

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