To clam the Indians by keeping the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
5 colonists died and the colonists began to look at the British in a different way
What were the results of the Boston Massacre?
200
People who lived in the colonies and disagreed with the King's taxes.
What are Patriots?
200
England was broke after the war and needed money to pay off the dept
What is the reason King George passed new taxed in the colonies after the French and Indian War?
200
Patriots broke open and dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
George Washington
Who was appointed commander of the Continental Army at the Second Continental Congress?
300
Choosing to not use a purchase a product to make a point
What is a boycott?
300
No taxing the colonists without having a say in Parliament
What is "No taxation without representation"?
300
Mohawk Indians
What did the colonists dress as during the Boston Tea Party?
300
Paul Revere
Who rode through the night to warn the colonists that the British were coming?
300
Lexington and Concord
Where was the first battle of the war fought?
400
Fighters in the Continental Army ready at a moments notice to help in battle
What are minutemen?
400
He passed the Coercive Acts or the Intolerable as the colonists called them.
What did King George do in response to the Boston Tea Party?
400
To encourage the colonists to work together against the British
What is the political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin saying, Join, or Die?
400
The British won but the Patriots gained hope and confidence to continue fighting for their independence.
What were the results fo the Battle of Bunker Hill?
500
Providing housing, food, and other basic needs to the British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
500
Closed the Boston Harbor, took away the colonist's right to govern themselves, and allowed British soldiers to live in colonist's homes and take control of unused buildings
What are the King's Coercive Acts, or the Intolerable Acts?
500
He believed freedom from England was so important, he was willing to fight for it.
What is did Patrick Henry mean by "I know not what course others my take, but as for me give me liberty or give me death!"