Causes
The French & Indian War was fought between these two countries.
What was Britain and France?
This event saw British redcoat soldiers fire into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 of them.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine explained the reasons that the colonies should be independent from Great Britain. It convinced many people to be patriots.
What was Common Sense?
The Sons of Liberty snuck onto a shipping boat to dumb the tea onboard into Boston Harbor in this famous fiesta.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This patriot group led many colonial protests, including the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was a tax on ALL paper products.
What was the Stamp Act?
This meeting of colonial representatives decided to write the Declaration of Independence to become free from Britain.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
To punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, England passed this series of laws, which included closing Boston Harbor until the price of the tea had been paid back.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
To refuse to buy goods as a protest.
What is a boycott?
The French & Indian War was fought over this territory to the west of the 13 colonies.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This was one of the major cities in the Revolution that experienced the most action and protests.
What is Boston?
At this meeting of colonial representatives, it was decided to send a letter to King George III to ask him to respect colonial rights. However, it was also decided that the colonial militias would prepare for a war.
What was the First Continental Congress?
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What was 1776?
Paul Revere's famous midnight ride was to warn the colonial militia that the British redcoats were on their way to capture these resources they had stashed away.
What were weapons and ammunition?
It forced colonists to provide food and housing for British soldiers.
What was the Quartering Act?
These people wanted to stay with Great Britain and did not want to fight for independence.
Who were the loyalists?
This law removed all taxes on imported goods in the colonies except for the tax on tea.
What was the Tea Act?
The first battle of the American Revolution.
What was Lexington and Concord?
The Declaration of Independence was written in 3 parts: the Preamble, this middle section, and the Declaration.
Britain won the French & Indian War, but at the cost of huge increases in this.
What is debt?
These people wanted to be independent from Great Britain.
Who were the patriots?
These taxes were placed on basically all goods the colonies imported.
What were the Townshend Acts?
DAILY DOUBLE
This rule from King George III said that all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were reserved for Native Americans.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
DAILY DOUBLE
This was the rallying cry of the colonial protests. It showed the colonists were upset that they were taxed by Parliament but had no representative to vote on the laws.
What is "no taxation without representation"?