The Stirrings of Rebellion
Ideas Help Start a Revolution
Struggling Toward Saratoga
#Winningthewar
Dates
100
This act required everyone to buy certain stamped paper for every legal document.
What is the Stamp Act
100
A 50 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
100
People who remained the fringes of the American Revolution.
Who are the Native Americans.
100
a Prussian captain and talented drillmaster, volunteered his services to General Washington
Who is Friedrich von Steuben
100
The year of the Boston Tea Party
When is 1773
200
This man was greatly unsuccessful in business and deeply in debt.
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
A Virginian Lawyer and the 3rd US president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Selling scarce goods for a profit.
What is Profiteering?
200
a brave, idealistic 20-year-old French aristocrat.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
200
The year of Intolerable Acts
When was 1774
300
Indirect taxes, or duties levied on important materials
What are the Townshend Acts
300
A document based off of concepts written by famous philosopher John Locke, and is still used today in the U.S.
What is the Deceleration of Independence.
300
The rise in prices due to congress printing more money and causing its value to plunge.
What is inflation?
300
A ambitious general sailed south with 8,500 men.
Who is Charles Cornwallis?
300
The year of Stamp Acts
When is 1765
400
A British attack on defenseless American citizens in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
People who opposed independence and remained loyal to the crown.
Who are loyalists.
400
American troops surrounded Burgoyne here and he surrendered his battered army to General Gates
What is Saratago?
400
This treaty confirmed U.S. independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
The year that the Sons of Liberty was founded
When was 1765
500
The king of Britain during the Boston Tea Party.
Who is King George III
500
Dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
A Continental Army camp based outside of of Philadelphia, used during the winter of 1777 and 1778.
What is Valley Forge?
500
The belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social, and civil Rights.
What is egalitarianism?
500
The year of the Deceleration of Independence.
When was 1776?
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