French and Indian War
The main area of the country that the British, French, Native Americans and the Colonists all fought for
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The way that the various colonies communicated with each other and kept each other updated about British actions
What are Committees of Correspondence?
This tax placed a tax on molasses and various types of sugar
What is the Sugar Act?
The Gaspee Affair
What is the name of the British ship that ran aground and the colonist set fire to?
The two towns where the Revolutionary War started
What are Lexington and Concord?
The head of the Colonial Milita
Who is George Washington?
The event that spawned from the taunting and throwing of snowballs at a British soldier guarding a customs house and resulted in multiple colonists losing their lives
What is the Boston Massacre?
This British act required colonists to provide shelter and food to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The group of colonists that overtly planned protests to combat the various British taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This is the treaty that essentially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Prevented the colonists from settling land west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The act that placed a tax on paper, newspapers, diplomas and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
The main way or tactic the Colonists utilized to protest the British taxes.
What is boycotting?
The main reason why the Battle of Saratoga was a huge turning point.
What is it convinced the French to enter the war and support the Colonists?
After the French and Indian War these were the colonists that wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain and King George the III.
Who are the Loyalists or Tories?
The author of Common Sense , a pamphlet that encouraged the Colonies to declare their independence from Britain
Who is Thomas Paine?
During this meeting the colonies agreed to continuing a boycott of British goods?
What is the First Continental Congress?
The Colonists response to the Tea Act of 1773.
What is dumping the tea overboard from the British ships into Boston Harbor?
He was in command of all British forces during the Revolutionary War?
Who is General Cornwallis?
Colonists that tended to have Anti - British stances and wanted to declare independence from Great Britain.
Who were the Patriots?
This document was in its simplest form a break up letter from the Colonists to King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Coercive Acts were intended to punish the Colonists after this famous event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Colonists, specifically the Minutemen, used this style of fighting the British.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
The British, after being surrounded, were forced to surrender at this location.
What is Yorktown?