December 16, 1773: This event involved Sons of Liberty raiding a British ship and throwing 340 chests of tea overboard
What is the Boston Tea Party ?
100
Tax on molasses and daily goods to support the British Kingdom
What is the Sugar Act 1764 ?
100
A group of citizens soldiers who were ready to fight the British at moments notice?
Who are the milita/ minutemen?
100
Pilgrims came 1629, lead by John Winthrop, settled in an area north of Plymouth
What is Massachusetts?
100
This nickname describes the British soldiers based on appearance.
What are redcoats?
200
March 5, 1770: Five colonist killed and injuring six.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
A British law that required the payment of a tax through the purchase of documents such as newspapers, magazines, legal and commercial papers of all kinds.
What is the Stamp Act 1765 ?
200
He was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks ?
200
Dutch settled in this area around the 1620s. Had a prized port called New Amsterdam, eventually British took over and it was renamed.
What is New York ?
200
Someone who supported King George III, the crown, England.
What is a loyalist.
300
A British law that banned settlement in a certain western lands to reduce tension between the colonist and Native Americans. The law was unpopular among American frontiersmen and traders
What is Proclamation of 1763?
300
A British Law that reaffirmed the right of parliament to pass laws for the colonies in “all cases whatsoever” The purpose of the law was to remind the colonist that the authority of the king and Parliament was superior to colonial governments
What is the Declaratory Act 1766 ?
300
First Postmaster General and created a system to have riders carry mail both night and day.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
Prospered in growing tobacco, and was a royal colony. Settlements in Roanoke and Jamestown.
What is Virginia ?
300
April 18-19 1775: This famous battle was lost by the Patriots.
What is Battle of Lexington ?
400
1754-1763: England/Colonies vs France/Native Americans, Tension growing between Colonists and Indians
What is French and Indian War (Seven Years War)?
400
Meant to punish the American Colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests, included the closure of Boston Harbor.
Massachusetts government controlled by appointed British officials.
British Troops should be given a place to live in colonist homes.
What is Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts of 1774 ?
400
July 1765: A group known for their militant activism against British taxes.
Who is the Sons of Liberty?
400
The Quakers were led by William Penn and came to settle in this state?
What is Pennsylvania?
400
This large, colonial city was overtaken by the British for a time. There were 4,000 British soldiers for 15,000 colonist. That is a 1:4
What is Boston?
500
October 14, 1774: The first Continental Congress adopts this in response to the Intolerable Acts imposed by the British.
What is Declaration of Rights and Resolves?
500
Put forth by the British forced Colonists to pay taxes on all imported goods from Britain. Imposes taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies
What is the Townshend Act of 1767 ?
500
September 5, 1774: A Virginia landowner George Washington, A lawyer from Massachusetts John Adams, The first postmaster general Ben Franklin and 53 other men formed this body who convened to represent the interest of colonist and protest British Rule.
What is First Continental Congress ?
500
Last of the English Colonies to be establish in 1733, led by James Oglethrope. Where English debtors can have a fresh new start.
What is Georgia.
500
The British law that granted the East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea into colonies, thus eliminating the profits of colonial importers and shopkeepers?