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100

Required colonists to provide food, drink, and housing to British soldiers stationed in their towns or villages.

What is the Quartering Act

100
A fight between British soldiers and colonists.... 5 colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre
100

Was chosen to lead the new American army and became the very first U.S. president

Who was George Washington

100

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Who was Thomas Jefferson

100

After what war did Britain start taxing the colonists to help pay back the war debt?

What is the French and Indian War

200

This act taxed sugar and molasses, and was strictly enforced

What is The Sugar Act

200
Allowed the East India Tea Company of Britain to sell tea in America at a cheap price. Made taxed tea even cheaper than smuggled tea. They were still upset and didn't buy the tea.
What is The Tea Act
200

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who said "give me liberty or give me death"

Who was Patrick Henry

200

Leader of Great Britain.

Who was King George III?

200

Britain would not strictly enforce taxes and laws on the colonies before 1763, and the colonists became angry when Britain stopped using ____________.

What is Salutary Neglect

300

Taxed anything on paper (newspapers, documents, playing cards)

What is The Stamp Act

300
Dozens of Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and boarded ships in Boston Harbor illegally. They threw the unwanted tea into the Harbor.
What is The Boston Tea Party
300

Wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense, that told the colonist it was common sense for the colonist to separate themselves from British control

Who was Thomas Paine

300

The founder of the Sons of Liberty

Who was Samuel Adams

300

The British government drew a boundary line in the Appalachian Mountains and forbid colonists from settling the lands west of the line

What is the Proclamation of 1763

400

Taxed tea, glass, lead, paints, and paper that the colonies imported. Also established the use of Writs of Assistance

What is The Townshend Act

400
The British learned that Patriots were storing gunpowder and cannons in Concord, Massachusetts. They sent soldiers to destroy the supplies.
What is The Battle of Lexington and Concord
400

This person was given a signal from lanterns in a Church bell tower. "One if by land two if by sea..."

Paul Revere

400

This man created the Albany Plan of Union and the "Join or Die" cartoon

Ben Franklin

400

British Acts that prevented who and what they could trade.  Made colonists angry because it restricted trade.  

What were the Navigation Acts?

500

Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Was a punishment for Massachusetts and a warning to other colonies.

What is The Coercive/Intolerable Acts

500
What was the first way the colonist were taxed?
What is The Sugar Act
500

This man defended the British soldiers accused of murder for the Boston Massacre

Who was John Adams

500
Was the fist person shot during the Boston Massacre
Who was Crispus Attucks
500

Delegates or representatives, from each colony met in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts.

What is The First Continental Congress

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