Colonies
Act
Battles
Events
Things
100
Founded by James Oglethorpe as a colony for debtors
What is georgia
100
taxed all paper goods
What is STamp Act
100
the first battle of the American Revolution
What is Lexington
100
5 people end up dead at the hands of British soldiers
What is Boston Massacre
100
Germans hired by the British to help fight the war
What are hessians
200
Jamestown was located here
What is Virginia
200
forced colonists to house soldiers
What is Quartering Act
200
Effectively ended the American Revolution
What is Yorktown
200
British goods are thrown into the harbor to show discontent with their rules
What is Boston Tea Party
200
the two sides that formed after writing the DoI
What is Patriots and Loyalists
300
The Plymouth colony was located here
What is Massachusetts
300
taxed led, tea, glass, dyes
What is Townshend Act
300
The turning point in favor of the colonists
What is Saratoga
300
The war preceeding Revolution that would give colonists more land that they couldn't settle
What is French and Indian War
300
The first document that provided for a self-governing colony
What is Mayflower Compact
400
Thomas Hooker wrote the first colonial constitution here
What is Connecticut
400
Made it cheaper to buy English goods than colonial goods
What is Tea Act
400
Washington crossed the Delaware River in a surprise attack
What is Trenton
400
a call from Benjamin Franklin to unite the colonies
What is Albany Plan of Union
400
the journey for Africans to come to America
What is Middle Passage
500
Renamed after the English Duke that took the land from the Dutch
What is New York
500
Given the nickname the Intolerable Acts
What is Coercive Act
500
a major victory for the Continentals in the south
What is Cowpens
500
the group that would get together to write the DoI
What is 2nd Continental Congress
500
how colonists knew of the abuses of the British
What is Sons of Liberty OR Committees of Correspondence
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