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Declaration of Independence
100
This person was king of England during the late 1700s when distrust between the government in England and the colonists rose to unprecedented heights
Who is King George III?
100
Location in which a Tea Party and Massacre occurred due to anger over British policies.
What is the city of Boston?
100
During this event several men warned the townspeople living in the small towns between Boston and Concord that the British soldiers were on the move.
What is known as the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?
100
This term means choosing not to buy items from a particular country or company.
What is a boycott?
100
This was the man who put the ideas of the Declaration committee on paper.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
200
These colonial protesters engaged in acts that included: burning tax collectors in effigy, ransacking and destroying homes, dumping tea into Boston Harbor, and tarring and feathering those who disagreed with their opinions.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
200
City in which the First and Second Continent Congresses met.
What is the city of Philadelphia?
200
This is the event in which a tax was to be paid on almost all printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This term means to cancel an act or a law.
What is the term repeal?
200
These were the men chosen to serve on the Declaration Committee.
Who were Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston.
300
This African American Boston dockworker was one of the first to be killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
300
Towns which are credited as the starting point of the American Revolution, where the "shot (between the British and American troops) was heard round the world."
What are the villages of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts?
300
This is the event during which all imported goods such as glass, tea, paper and lead were taxed in the colonies.
What is the Townshend Acts?
300
This term refers to ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion.
What is the term propaganda?
300
This was the date on which the Declaration of Independence was approved.
What was July 4, 1776?
400
This Colonial commander told his men at the Battle of Bunker Hill not to fire at the enemy until "you see the whites of their eyes."
Who was Colonel William Prescott?
400
This is the location of where the Battle of Bunker Hill actually occurred.
What is Breed's Hill?
400
This is the event in which the British closed Boston Harbor until the payment for the ruined tea was made. This event also forced Bostonians to shelter British soldiers in their own homes and also took away their town meetings.
What is the event known as the Intolerable Acts by the colonists or the Coercive Acts by the British?
400
These were American colonists who continued to support Britain and opposed the war for independence.
What is the term Loyalist?
400
This was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. His signature was large to allow the King of England to read it without having to use his glasses.
Who was John Hancock?
500
This person, in correspondence with a person serving on the committee to draft a Declaration of Independence, stated that attention needed to be paid to the ladies, in order that they would not rise up against the new colonial government in which they had no voice or representation.
Who is Abigail Adams?
500
This is the lake on which Ethan Allen is credited as having captured the British fort known as Ticonderoga.
What is Lake Champlain?
500
This term means the introduction to a formal document.
What is the term preamble?
500
This man published a pamphlet called Common Sense supporting the opinion that Americans should declare their independence.
Who was Thomas Paine?
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