Great Britain needed money because they had spent so much on this war
What is the French and Indian War?
100
He made the "Join or Die" cartoon of the cut-up snake.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
Colonists decided not to buy British goods, rather than pay taxes on them. Name the word for this refusal.
What is boycott?
100
This many persons were killed in the Boston Massacre.
What is 5?
100
Militia and minutemen are what?
What is volunteer soldiers ready to fight at a minute's notice
200
In 1756, this law placed a tax on printed materials such as legal documents, newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This person organized the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Sam Adams?
200
Parliament cancelled (repealed) the Stamp Act, but they passed the Townshend Acts, which placed a tariff on these products.
What are paper, wool and tea?
200
He was killed in the Boston Massacre, a former slave.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
200
Recite the first 5 lines of Paul Revere's Ride
What is Listen my children and you will hear
of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
on the eighteenth of April in seventy-five
Hardly a man is now alive
who remembers the famous day and year
300
Since colonists never voted for Parliament, they had this protest cry about the taxes:
What is "No Taxation Without Representation!"?
300
A group of leaders organized this meeting to urge Parliament to cancel the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
300
Mercy Otis Warren organized this group, who began weaving their own cloth, making their own tea, so they wouldn't use British goods.
What is Daughters of Liberty?
300
These were formed to carry information between the colonies.
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
300
Shot Heard Round the World
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which started the American Revolution, and affected world history.
400
This is the King of England, and the law-making assembly.
(2 answers)
What are King George and Parliament?
400
These persons were hated by Americans, who hung life-size puppets (effigies) to scare them so they wouldn't do their work of collecting taxes.
Who are Stamp Act Tax agents?
400
The Intolerable Acts were called that because colonists hated the fact that Britain 1.) sent British soldiers back to Boston after the Massacre 2.) Colonists were forced to house and feed soliders. and 3.) this action
What is the port of Boston was closed?
400
Britain passed the Tea Act for what two reasons?
What is 1. to help the East India Tea Company
2. make the colonists pay taxes
400
This battle really took place on Breed's Hill. "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
500
This man was Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1765, who knew that his country had HUGE debts. He decided on the Stamp Tax.
Who is George Grenville?
500
The British did this to try to scare the Americans into paying their taxes, even thought B. Franklin warned them it would only make the Americans more angry.
What is send British warships to Boston in 1768.
500
This person gave a famous speech during the Continental Congress and told people to do what was right, not what was easy. He knew liberty had a price.
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
Who made the Boston Tea Party, (who dressed up as what)
Where was it held
How many ships
What is 1.) Americans disguised as Mohawks
2.) Boston Harbor
3.) three