This required colonist to provide shelter and supplies to British soldiers without getting paid for it.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
This is the main reasons Colonists became unhappy with the king before the war began.
What is taxation without representation?
100
The first fighting of the American Revolution took place at this location.
Where is Lexington & Concord?
100
According to the Declaration of Independence, this is the basic rights given to all men.
What is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
100
The only branch of government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Legislative Branch?
200
This forced colonist to pay taxes on all printed materials and shipping crates.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This event was when British soldiers were being teased and they shot several colonists?
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
This was a costly victory for the British near Greensboro.
What is the Battle of Guilford Courthouse?
200
According to the Declaration of Independence, this is the government's responsibility regarding our rights.
What is to protect them?
200
This document was written to explain why the Americans wanted their freedom from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This law prohibited people from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
This was an act of rebellion when a group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded 3 tea ships docked in Boston Harbor and dumped over one million dollars worth of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
The date that Americans declared their independence from Great Britain.
What is July 4, 1776?
300
This document provided 3 branches of government?
What is the Constitution?
300
The name given to an American colonist who supported the King and Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
What is a loyalist (Tories)?
400
This law put a tax on all imported goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
400
An African-American who was killed and became a martyr for the American Revolution.
Who is Cripus Attucks?
400
This battle is considered the turning point in the Revolutionary War because the Americans and the French decided to send money to help with the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
This is America's first attempt at a government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
This provided people with a written guarantee of individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
This is a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
This was the reason for the Boston Tea Party.
What is to protest taxes or taxes on tea?
500
The treaty that ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
Under this plan, every state had an equal vote, ensuring that smaller states could not be overpowered by more populous ones.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
500
This American document provided for 2 houses in the legislative branch of government.