Category 1: British Taxes & Acts
1765 tax on legal documents, newspapers, and cards.
A: What is the Stamp Act?
1774 meeting that organized a boycott and petitioned the king.
A: What is the First Continental Congress?
Main author.
A: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
$100: Surprise winter raid after crossing the Delaware, 1776.
A: What is Trenton?
$100 ⭐: 1781 siege where Cornwallis surrendered.
A: What is Yorktown?
1767 import duties on glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.
A: What are the Townshend Acts?
1775–1781 body that formed the Continental Army and chose Washington.
A: What is the Second Continental Congress?
$200: Date adopted.
A: What is July 4, 1776?
$200: 1777 victory that persuaded a key ally to join.
A: What is Saratoga?
$200: Bay the French fleet blocked at Yorktown.
A: What is the Chesapeake Bay?
1773 law helping the British East India Company sell tea cheaper.
A: What is the Tea Act?
$300: City where both congresses first met.
A: What is Philadelphia?
$300: Enlightenment thinker on natural rights influencing Jefferson.
A: Who is John Locke?
$300 ⭐: European nation that allied in 1778 with money, troops, and a navy.
A: What is France?
$300: Year the Treaty of Paris ended the war.
A: What is 1783?
1774 laws closing Boston’s port and limiting self-rule.
A: What are the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?
$400: 1775 plea to the king seeking reconciliation. Hint its a plant that sybolizes peace!
A: What is the Olive Branch Petition?
$400: Monarch named in the list of grievances.
A: Who is King George III?
$400: French aristocrat who aided Washington.
A: Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
$400: Western boundary recognized in the treaty.
A: What is the Mississippi River?
The protest slogan against taxation without a colonial voice.
A: What is “no taxation without representation”?
What is the name of the guns used
Muskets
$500: Name of the famous opening section asserting self-evident truths.
A: What is the preamble?
$500: Prussian officer who drilled troops at Valley Forge.
A: Who is Baron von Steuben?
Who was the famous traitor ?
Benedict Arnold