EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PART I
EVENTS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PART II
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PART I
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PART II
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Phrase that the colonists claimed that Parliament did not have the right to tax them

What is "No Taxation without Representation"?

100
The act that required colonists to provide housing, food, firewood, and other essentials for British soldiers was called the
What was the Quartering Act?
100
The Declaration of Independence was primarily written by
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
100
Samuel Adams called April 19, 1775, “a glorious day for America” because
What is the fight for independence had begun at Lexington and Concord?
100

Paul Revere's engraving was an example of this....making one side look bad through untruths (and most-likely, flat-out lies).

What is PROPAGANDA?

200

The document that was crucial in changing public opinion to support the idea of independence...duhhhhh

What is Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?

200

Colonists responded to the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts by

What is boycotting British goods?

200

Date and Place where the Declaration of Independence signed in the Colonies.

What was July 4th, 1776 in Philadelphia?

200
On December 25, 1776, Washington and his men crossed the Delaware River to attack the Hessians at
What is Trenton?
200

The Colonists brought on the Intolerable Acts by the British because of their protest in this event.

What was the Boston Tea Party?

300

American colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain were called

What is Loyalists ?

300

Closed Boston Harbor, Massachusetts under Martial Law, and more of the Quartering Act.

What is united the colonies against Britain?

300

The Declaration of Independence was written to explain

What was why it was time for the colonies to separate from Great Britain or why was it time to "Break up with England"?

300
American victories at Trenton and Princeton showed this
What is that it showed that the Americans could defeat the British and their allies?
300

British General Cornwallis surrendered his forces at

What is Yorktown?

400

Document that Colonists wrote up to get King George III to "back off a little"....

What is support the Olive Branch Petition?

400

This letter-writing campaign took place between the Colonies AFTER the Boston Massacre of 1770. 

What was The Committees of Correspondence?

400

Many ideas of the Declaration of Independence were taken from John Locke and Baron de Montesquie, two main people from this European movement.

What was the ENLIGHTENMENT?

400
After 1776, Washington’s basic military strategy was to
What is fight a defensive war, retreat and tire out the British?
400

The new United States received all  English land east of the Mississippi River except for Florida and Canada in 1783?

What was the Treaty of Paris 1783?

500
The name for the colonial military force created to fight the British
What was the Continental Army?
500

Famous Phrase in which General Prescott told the Continental Army at the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

What was "Don't shoot until you see the Whites of their eyes"?

500

The term that means a list of reasons for filing and complaint.

What is a GRIEVANCE?

500
Many African Americans joined the American Army hoping that this would happen
What is independence would lead to the end of slavery?
500

This battle became a turning point of the war because it convinced the French to join with Washington’s Army

What was the Battle of Saratoga?

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