Causes of the Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War Vocabulary
Revolutionary War Events
Revolutionary War People
Wild Card
100
This act required a stamp on newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Refusing to buy something or shop somewhere out of protest

What is boycott?

100

What was the name for an event where many Sons of Liberty dressed up like Indians and dumped 300 chests of tea in Boston Harbor?

What is the Boston Tea Party?

100
Who is the commander in chief of the American patriot forces who ends up being America's first president?
Who is George Washington?
100

Nicknames given to the British soldier based on the color of their uniforms.

What is a Redcoat (or lobsters)?

200

The colonists were upset about the taxes because they didn't want "____________ without ____________?

taxation without representation

200
This is a word for colonists who did not support the British and wanted freedom from them

What is a patriot?

200
In this incident, British troops fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five, including freed slave Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200

This was the king of England during the Revolutionary War

Who is King George III?

200

This country won the Revolutionary War

What is the United States?

300
This act forced colonists to house and provide food to British soldiers.   It angered colonists.

What is Quartering?

300

This is another word for British supporters in the colonies

What are loyalists?

300

What was the name of the colonial army? 

Continental Army

300

Name one of two major accomplishments of the Second Continental Convention.

Double points for both! 

Wrote the Declaration of Independence and formed the Continental Army.

300

What is the difference between a Patriot and a Loyalist?

A patriot was a colonist who wanted to break away from King George and England, and a Loyalist was a person who thought the colonies should be 'loyal' to England.

400
This is the document in which the colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400

What is propaganda? Give an example.

What is infomration that is given that is exaggerated or misleading.  An example is the Boston Massacre picture by Paul Revere.  It made the colonists look innocent.

400
This was the first battle in the Revolutionary War

What is Lexington and Concord

400

This person wrote the Declaration of Independence

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

400

What was the group of colonial fighters that had to be ready at a moment's notice?

What are Minutemen?

500

This is how the French and Indian war led to the American Revolution.

What is the French and Indian War left Great Britain in debt, leading them to make taxes on the colonies. 

500

This document officially ended the Revolutionary War.

What is the Treaty of Paris

500

This was the policy adopted by the British that allowed the colonists to govern themselves without much interference. 

Salutary neglect

500

This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, convinced many people to fight for independence from the British.

"Common Sense"

500

A nontraditional type of war strategy that included ambushes, raids, sabotage, and hit-and-run tactics.   (INSTEAD of lining up in fields in the traditional fashion)

What is Guerilla Warfare?

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