Major Events
The day when patriots threw tea into Boston Harbor was called this
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A British law put high taxes on this drink
What is tea?
George the Third was king of this country
What is England? (or Great Britain)
The second Continental Congress had representatives from all thirteen of these
What are colonies?
The three categories of colonists
What are patriots, loyalists and neutralists
The city where British troops shot at rioting Patriots
Boston
A British law said that colonists could not buy paper goods without this
What is a stamp?
The general of the Continental Army, who later became the first president of the United States
Who was George Washington?
True or false: the Continental Congress decided what taxes the colonists had to pay to England
False (the British government decided the taxes)
Name 7 of the 13 original colonies
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
The two towns where the British first attacked
Lexington and Concord
The Quartering Act said that British soldiers could do what?
Stay overnight at any colonist's house
He was one of dozens of patriots who warned people about the British attack
Who was Paul Revere?
The second Continental Congress wrote and signed this letter to King George III
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This group of colonists thinks that the Boston Massacre was the colonists' fault
Who are the Loyalists?
How the patriots signaled that the British were attacking from the river
What is hanging two lanterns in the church tower?
The British closed this down after the Boston Tea Party
What is Boston Harbor?
The British governor who was put in charge of Massachusetts
Who was Thomas Gage?
The Continental Congress voted to boycott British goods; boycott means this
What is to stop buying or selling?
This is a group of colonists who fight the British soldiers, but aren't an organized army
What is a militia?