Famous Faces
This silversmith from Boston is famous for his midnight ride to warn that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This 1770 event in Boston where British soldiers fired on colonists, killing five, became a powerful symbol of British tyranny.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a tax on printed paper materials like newspapers, playing cards, and legal documents.
What is The Stamp Act?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, announced the colonies' separation from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A colonist who supported fighting for independence from Britain.
What is a Patriot?
He was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and became our first president.
Who is George Washington?
The 1773 protest where colonists, dressed as Mohawks, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest a tax.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
This means to refuse to buy or use goods and services as a form of protest. Colonists did this to British goods.
What is a Boycott?
The final section of the Declaration of Independence is a formal declaration of what?
What is was? (or independence)
A colonist who remained loyal to Great Britain and the King.
What is a Loyalist?
This founding father wrote most of the Declaration of Independence and later became the 3rd president.
Who is Tomas Jefferson?
The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War, known as "the shot heard 'round the world," happened here.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This 1767 act placed a tax on common imported goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townsend acts?
This document was sent to King George the III in hopes to have peace and not a war.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This Patriot group, known for their protests, used tar and feathers to intimidate tax collectors.
Who are the Sons Of Liberty?
King of Great Britain during the American Revolution. The colonists were not his biggest fans.
This 1781 battle in Virginia was the last major battle of the war, where General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
What is The Battle of Yorktown?
The famous slogan, "No taxation without ________________," expressed the colonists' main complaint.
What is representation?
This document, which ended the Revolutionary War, was signed in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
They whom shouted "No Taxation Without Representation"
What is a Patriot?
Known for creating the Join or Die cartoon
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This meeting of delegates from the colonies in 1774 was held to decide how to respond to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
These laws, passed in 1774 to punish Boston after the Tea Party, shut down the port and limited self-government.
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
The second section of the Declaration of Independence lists grievances, or complaints, against this person.
Who is in George III?
The famous second sentence of the Declaration states that all men are endowed by their Creator with these three unalienable rights.
What are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness?