Acts
Vocabulary
Dates
Reasons to go to war
Key people
100
What did they tax with the stamp act?
What is a tax on anything with paper?
100
What is a monopoly?
What is total control of a market for a certain product?
100
What year was the battle of Lexington and Concord?
What is 1775?
100
What happened on the night of March 5th, 1770 that resulted in five civilian deaths?
What is the Boston massacre?
100
Who was the leader of Britain between 1760-1820?
Who is King George III?
200
What did they tax in the sugar act?
What is import tax on molasses, sugar, and rum?
200
What are minutemen?
What are citizen soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice?
200
What year was the first continental congress?
What is 1774?
200
Why were they colonists upset about taxes?
What is no taxation without representation?
200
Who was a well known Massachusetts lawyer and a defender of colonial rights?
Who is John Adams?
300
What is the tea act?
What is British control over all tea sales in the colonies?
300
What is a repeal?
What is an official end?
300
What year was the Boston tea party?
What is 1773?
300
Which event triggered the intolerable acts?
What is the Boston tea party?
300
Who established the committee of correspondence?
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
What is the quartering act?
What is a tax to provide British soldiers with food and other supplies?
400
What is a petition?
What is a written request to the government?
400
What year was the stamp act passed?
What is 1765?
400
Why were extra British soldiers sent to the colonies?
What is King George III heard the colonists were stashing weapons?
400
Who was a 21-year-old surveyor in the Virginia militia?
Who is George Washington?
500
What are the intolerable acts?
What is closed the port of Boston and cut the powers of town meetings?
500
What is a Writ of Assistance?
What are court orders that allowed officials to make searches without saying for what they were searching?
500
What year was the French and Indian war?
What is 1754?
500
What was the line called that banned settlements west of the Appalachian mountains?
What is the proclamation line?
500
Who said "give me liberty or give me death"?
Who is Patrick Henry?
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