I was a customs agent colonists loved to hate. One day, I was tarred and feathered by colonists.
Who is Captain John Malcolm
100
This act placed a tax on the most popular hot drink.
What is the Tea Act
100
During this event, colonists dressed as Native Americans to board British ships and dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party
100
A nickname for the British Soldiers.
What is Redcoats (or Lobsterbacks)
200
My not guilty verdict allowed colonists to speak out against government.
Who is John Peter Zenger
200
This act required colonists to buy stamps for most paper goods, playing cards, pamphlets, calendars, documents, etc.
What is the Stamp Act
200
This war was fought between the British, colonists, French and Native Americans. It left the British deep in debt.
What is the French and Indian War
200
This was issued by King George lll after the French & Indian War. It set aside the land west of Appalachian Mountains for the Native Americans and the land east of the mountains for the colonists.
What is Proclamation of 1763
300
I warned the people of Lexington that the British soldiers were coming.
Who is Paul Revere
300
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act
300
During this event, colonists protested the collection of taxes and threw snowballs at British guards. Five colonists were killed and many others were wounded in this event.
What is the Boston Massacre
300
Colonists created this phrase to describe being taxed without having someone in British Parliament to vote on taxes.
What is Taxation without Representation
400
I lived in London in the years leading up to the Revolution, though I am considered a true American. I worked to communicate with the British for the Colonists before moving back.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
400
This act required colonists to pay taxes on sugar, coffee, molasses, indigo and whale fins.
What is the Sugar Act
400
Representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia to organize their complaints against the British as a unified group.
What is the First Continental Congress
400
A term that defines the way colonists, including Paul Revere, portrayed the Boston Massacre in order to rally the colonies against the British.
What is Propaganda
500
I died in the Boston Massacre and was the first African American hero of the war.
Who is Crispus Attucks
500
This act placed a tax on imported lead, glass, paper, paint and tea.
What is the Townsend Act
500
The battle that started the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord
500
This document distributed power to more than just the King of England.