The Boston Tea Party was a form of protest to this act.
What is the Tea Act?
100
The main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The first two towns where the British troops and colonists first clashed at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
100
People who lived in the colonies and were loyal to Great Britain.
Who are Loyalists?
100
He was chosen by the Second Continental Congress to command the new Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
200
This act forced colonists to house British soldiers in their own homes.
What is The Quartering Act?
200
Ruler of Great Britain during the American Revolution. He believed the colonies should be ruled by Great Britain, and he ordered the British military to stop the rebellion.
Who is King George III?
200
This place, in Pennsylvania, was especially bad for George Washington and his troops because they were lacking food, clothing, and other necessary supplies there in the middle of winter.
What is Valley Forge?
200
The unjust use of government power.
What is tyranny?
200
This famous document, which serves as the U.S.A.'s "birth certificate," was written to explain why it was time for the colonies to separate from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This act stated that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
300
Wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense," which encouraged a final break with England.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
George Washington and his troops surprised the Hessians with an attack on Christmas Day in this New Jersey town.
What is Trenton?
300
A small army made up of ordinary citizens who were able to fight in an emergency.
What is a militia?
300
This type of warfare is demonstrated by a small band of fighters who launch surprise attacks on the enemy.
What is guerrilla warfare?
400
This law, which required colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they used, caused many of them to to shout out in anger: "No taxation without representation!"
What is the Stamp Act?
400
They were German mercenaries at Trenton, and were asleep when Washington attacked them on Christmas day.
Who are the Hessians?
400
After an American victory here, the French saw that the colonies had a chance and agreed to help in the war effort.
What is Saratoga?
400
A country that agrees to help another country to achieve a common goal.
What is an ally?
400
Two ways in which women helped in the war.
What are nursing, cooking, doing laundry, sabotage, fought in the war, took over business/farm?
500
These acts were designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. Meant to force the colonists to give in, they instead united the colonies against Britain.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
French general who helped raise the Continental Army's spirits at Valley Forge. He even used his own money to help them buy supplies.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
500
General Corwallis surrendered here after being surrounded by American and French troops.
What is Yorktown?
500
Professional soldiers hired to fight for foreign countries.
What is a mercenary?
500
According to the Declaration of Independence, this should happen if the government abuses its power.