British Acts
This 1765 act required colonists to pay for official stamps on documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This event on December 16, 1773, involved colonists dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was the Commander-In-Chief of the Colonial Army.
Who is George Washington?
This act was the reason for the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
This battle was a surprise attack on the British, with Washington and troops crossing an icy river.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
This 1764 act placed taxes on molasses imported from non-British colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These two men worked towards getting an alliance with the French?
Who are Benjamin Franklin and John Adams?
This proclamation angered colonists by limiting their westward expansion.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1781 battle effectively ended the Revolutionary War with Cornwallis's surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1773 act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
This group of people were founded by Samuel Adams, after the implementation of the Stamp Act.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This Founding Father wrote "Common Sense," advocating for independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The colonists listed this amount of grievances in the Declaration of Independence.
What are 27?
This 1777 American victory was a turning point in the war, convincing France to support the colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
These laws, passed in 1774, were created to punish the colonists, especially those in Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Colonial representatives that got together to discuss matters of concern with the British.
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
This man, a British philosopher, wrote "life, liberty, and property".
Who is John Locke?
This principle, central to colonial protests, stated that colonists deserved elected representatives in Parliament.
Two men that George Washington brought to Valley Forge to train the Continental Army.
Who are Baron von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette?
This 1767 series of laws placed taxes on imported goods like glass, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This document, signed on July 4, 1776, formally declared independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These men wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who are the Committee of Five (Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Adams)
This group of colonists remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution.
Who are the Loyalists or Tories?
This 1775 battle, fought near Boston, is often considered the start of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?