Famous People
Acts and Taxes
Vocabulary
Anything Goes
Explorers and Colonial Life
100
The king of England during the American Revolution
Who is King George III
100
Required colonists to allow British soldiers into their homes to sleep. They also had to provide them with food. 
What is the Quartering Act
100
a person (colonist) who didn't take a side
Who are neutral colonists
100
This is another name for the British that refers to them as a sea crustacean. 
What is a Lobsterback
100

Why did the European Explorers come to North America?

They were looking for a shorter route to Asia

200
Took a midnight ride to warn colonists before the Battles of Lexington and Concord. He is known for saying, "The British are coming" and "one if by land and two if by sea"
Who is Paul Revere
200
The war the put England in debt and caused King George the III and the British Parliament were taxing the colonists. 
What is the French and Indian War
200
A colonist who was still loyal to Britain. Also known as Tories
Who are Loyalists
200
This slogan would be the hashtag of the Patriot's movement. They would shout this when they were fed up with the taxes and having no representation in government
What is "Taxation without representation"
200

Name the three European Explorers we studied. Hint they have famous bridges and bodies of water named after them.

Henry Hudson

Samuel de Champlain

Giovanni da Verrazzano

300

Was named the Commander and Chief of the Continental Army during the Second Continental Congress. He was the first President of the United States. 

Who is George Washington

300
Placed a tax on sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act
300
Colonists who wanted their Independence from England
Who are Patriots
300
This "party" thrown by the Sons of Liberty cost the British a lot of money and caused them to close the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party
300

Who helped to clean up New Amsterdam (present day New York City)

Peter Stuyvesant 

400

He was the first person to die during the Boston Massacre

Who is Crispus Attucks 

400
This was a series of acts that placed even more taxes on the colonists. One tax included a tax on tea. 
What are the Townshend Acts
400
name for the people living in America under British rule
Who is a colonist
400

Angry colonists threw snow balls and sticks at British Soldiers during this bloody event that was a cause of the American Revolution. 

What is the Boston Massacre

400
They originally settled what is now New York State and New York city. When they controlled it, before surrendering to the British, they called it New Netherland
Who are the Dutch
500

She was an important member of the Culper Spy Ring. She was know to hang laundry out on a line as a signal to Benjamin Tallmadge and Abraham Woodhull

Who is Anna Smith Strong


500

These acts most famously closed the port of Boston and took away the right for Massachusetts to govern itself. They were enacted as a result of the Boston Tea Party.

What are the Intolerable Acts (The Coercive Acts)

500
A document written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the colonists Independence from Great Britain. 
What is the Declaration of Independence
500

What was the name of the secret organization that formed after the Stamp Act and helped plan events like the Boston Tea Party.

The Sons of Liberty
500

Name all 13 original colonies.

Bonus- label them as New England, Middle or Southern

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island (New England Colonies)

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware (Middle Colonies)

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (Southern Colonies)

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