Events and Battles
Acts
People/Groups
Revolutionary War #1
Revolutionary War#2
100
This Battle was Known as "The shot heard around the world." It was the first battle between the minutemen and the British.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
100
This act said that colonists needed to have soldiers live in their homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
These men were ready very quickly to fight.
Who were the minutemen?
100
This document stated that we wanted to break away from Great Britain and become our own country. it was signed on July 4, 1776.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
100
This is the British ruling government.
What is Parliament?
200
In this event, patriots dressed up like Native Americans and threw tea in Boston Harbor as a sign of protest.
What was The Boston Tea Party?
200
This act taxed what the English people loved to drink the most!
What was the Tea Act?
200
If you were faithful to King George and Great Britain, you were considered a
What was a loyalist.
200
This battle was considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
200
These group of fighting men were organized during the First Continental Congress.
What are militias.
300
This event occurred when colonists pelted snowballs and rocks at British soldiers. The end result was 5 colonists were killed.
What was The Boston Massacre.
300
This act taxed paper goods like newspapers and legal documents.
What was The Stamp Act?
300
These men met in secret to plan attacks against the British.
Who were the Sons of Liberty.
300
This city/colony was where the First and Second Continental Congress were held.
What was Philadelphia/Pennsylvania?
300
Since the colonists has no elected officials in Great Britain to represent them in Parliament, they protested by saying this...
What is No Taxation without Representation.
400
This war was put the British in debt and was the first event leading up to the American Revolution
What was The French and Indian War
400
This act was the first law put into place designed to collect money to pay for the costly French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act
400
The commander of the Continental Army
Who was George Washington.
400
These were the reasons that the colonists were successful in winning the Revolutionary War.
What were help from France/Spain, belief in rights, strong leadership.
400
This was the last battle of the Revolutionary War. With the help of French forces, the Continental Army was able to surround the British. They had no escape.
What was The Battle of Yorktown?
500
After this battle, the French decided to provide support for the colonists..
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
500
This series of four acts was passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies. Three of them were repealed. The British American colonists named the acts after the man who sponsored them.
What was The Townshend Acts?
500
This man rode through the streets of Boston warning that the British were coming to Lexington and Concord.
Who was Paul Revere?
500
This political cartoon was published by Ben Franklin. It featured pieces of a snake intended to unite the colonies. What is the meaning of this.
What is "Join or Die"?
To join the cause for the colonists' independence from Great Britain or die trying.
500
In this document, the King recognized the colonist's independence from Great Britain. America was its own country!!!!
The Treaty of Paris 1783