Vocabulary
People/Groups
Places
Events/locations
This and That
100
This is what the called the event when soldiers killed five angry colonists in Boston.
What is a massacre?
100
Britain made the Proclamation of 1763 to avoid fight with this group.
Who are the Native Americans?
100
The first fight between the colonists and the British was found here.
What are Lexington and Concord?
100
After the French and Indian War, Britain had control of this land of North America.
What is Canada and land east of the Mississippi?
100
Biggest reason colonists did not want to pay taxes.
What is "no taxation without representation."
200
Many simple farmers with their own weapons to form a group to protect their families from the British.
What is a militia?
200
This group stopped buying British goods and started making their own cloth.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
200
At the end of the French and Indian War, Britain and France signed a treaty named for this place.
What is Paris?
200
At this event, colonists decided that only colonial governments should tax the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
200
What illegal activity did the colonial merchants participate in because they did not want to pay taxes on goods?
What is smuggling?
300
In the French and Indian War, the French depended on the Indians to be this to them.
What is an ally?
300
This group was formed to share news and ideas with people in other colonies.
What was the Committees of Correspondence.
300
Boston is located in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
300
This happened because a crowd began yelling and throwing snowball at British soldiers.
What was the Boston Massacre?
400
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty participated in these to complain about the taxes.
What is a protest?
400
This group held the Boston Tea Party because Britain tried to make the colonists pay a tax on tea.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
400
The militia lost this battle to the British soldiers because they ran out of ammunition.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
This was sent to King George III asking for a peaceful resolution to the conflict between the colonists and Britain after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
400
This tax was a tax on anything that was printed on paper.
What was the Stamp Act?
500
This was the name of colonists who opposed British rule.
What are Patriots?
500
This man was the first commander of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
500
The French and Indian War was fought for control of this area.
What was the Ohio River Valley?
500
Paul Revere was captured at this town and later released?
What was Lexington?
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