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100
He gave a fiery speech in the House of Burgesses called the Virginia Resolves.
Who is Patrick Henry?
100
Known also as the French and Indian War, this war was fought between Britain, France, and the Iroquois.
What is the Seven Years' War?
100
More controversial because of its wider affects, this act was passed in 1765.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Known as the Swamp Fox, he used guerrilla tactics against the British in the South.
Who is Francis Marion?
100
This major rebellion, put down by a state militia, made the push for a new Constitution all the louder.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
200
She wrote and spoke a lot about girls' and women's education.
Who is Judith Sargent Murray?
200
What George Washington had to do at Fort Necessity.
What is surrender?
200
Large segments of the population were mobilized, and a smaller section threw a certain beverage overboard, after the passage of this act.
What is Tea Act?
200
Preferring the company of his mistress, this British general failed to advance northward beyond Philly.
Who is General Howe?
200
Quite possibly the greatest success of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
He was Prime Ministers after Pitt, and argued that the colonies should pay more of the burdens of empire.
Who is George Grenville?
300
It was here that the Seven Years' War was ended.
What is the Peace of Paris?
300
In response to the Boston Tea Party, these acts were passed.
What are the Coercive Acts?
300
An effective American general, he was able to push Cornwallis northward.
Who is General Greene?
300
Finished off by the American Revolution, this confederacy eventually broke apart.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
She famously said to her husband, "Remember the Ladies!"
Who is Abigail Adams?
400
Following this even, Samuel Adams stirred up outrage via his Committee of Correspondence.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
More of a tax on luxury than necessity, this act was passed early on.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
This American general took Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
Who is George Washington?
400
Thomas Paine's most famous pamphlet.
What is "Common Sense"?
500
He led a rebellion on the western frontier, in part prompting the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763.
Who is Pontiac?
500
A collective assembly that met in September 1774 after the colonial assemblies were suspended by the British.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
This act was passed at the very same time that the Stamp Act was repealed.
What is the Declaratory Act?
500
The British general who was forced to surrender at the Battle of Saratoga.
Who is General Burgoyne?
500
The phrase given to describe relations between Britain and her American colonies prior to the 1760s.
What is salutary neglect?
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