This was started by Samuel Adams which was a group of prominent citizens who wrote back and forth between colonies and helped each other with problems.
What is the "committees of correspondence"?
100
An act that required all official documents used in the colonies be written on special stamped paper.
What is The Stamp Act?
100
This was an act of defiance in which colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians and boarded British ships and threw the tea overboard.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
100
This pamphlet spoke out against the unfair treatment of the colonies by the British government.
What is Common Sense?
200
The men who rode to spread the word that "The British are coming!"
Who are William Dawes, Paul Revere, and Samuel Prescott?
200
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine were three of these; someone who sparks a revolution
What is a firebrand?
200
A series of laws passed by the Parliament in 1774 in direct response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
200
A group of colonials started throwing rocks and snowballs at some British sodiers, the soldiers panicked and fired their muskets, killing a few colonists; evidence suggests that a mob started it.
What is The Boston Massacre?
200
Slogan that was popular in the American colonies that summarized the main problem between England and America at the time.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
300
This person's trial helped assure freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America.
Who is Peter Zenger?
300
Group of men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
300
A series of laws that imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. All of them were eventually repealed except for the one on tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
This is where British ships were considered sitting ducks because their ships ran aground and their cannon ball shells stuck in the side of the fort.
What is Charleston Harbor?
300
A black women who wrote patriotic poetry in an effort to convince loyalists to become patriots.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
400
This American officer fought bravely for America and then turned traitor.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
Group of American patriots best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party; started by Sam Adams
What is the Sons of Liberty?
400
A document signed by the 2nd continental congress declaring a break from England; listed grievances against the king.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
400
The first major battle of the American Revolution; colonists were told "do not fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"
What is Breed's Hill?
400
The Declaration of Independence was signed on this date.
What is July 4, 1776?
500
He was elected General of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress.
Who is George Washington?
500
Leader of England during the Revolutionary War period.
Who is King George?
500
This gave the East India Company a monopoly on the trade of tea, making it illegal to buy non-British tea and forcing the colonies to pay 3 cents per pound.
What is the Tea Act?
500
This was instrumental in turning public opinion in favor of the Revolution.
What is the publishing of Common Sense by Thomas Paine?
500
He wrote the Declaration of Independence at the age of 33.