Rode to every Middlesex village and farm alerting villagers "The British are coming"
Who is Paul Revere
100
The year the Magna Carta was put into law
What is 1215
100
A law that required all colonists to pay a tax on all paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act
100
An event Paul Revere etched into the hearts and minds of colonists that told of a great killing in the streets of Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre
100
Known as the War of the Hills
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
200
John's cousin who was instrumental in getting others to join the Sons of Liberty and starting talk about the revolution.
Who is Sam Adams
200
1607
What is Jamestown begins
200
A law that allowed colonists to buy only tea from the East India Tea Company that included a tax.
What is the tea tax
200
Colonists gathered on the docks at night and boarded three ships to dump the contents of the ships' cargo into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party
200
Meant as ridicule by the redcoats, the colonial soldiers took it on as a sign of pride
What is Yankee Doodle
300
First Commander in General of the new Continental Army
Who is George Washington
300
1620
What is when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
300
After the Boston Tea Party, Britain passed laws that closed the port of Boston, required a curfew and a quartering act known in England as the Coercive Acts.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
Shot Heard 'round the World
What is battle of Lexington
300
He was a young lawyer, able to write well and was given this important job. He was one of five who was assigned this important task.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
He was the first to sign his name to the Declaration of Independence and thought he would be named the first general of the continental army.
Who is John Hancock
400
July 4, 1776
What is the day the Declaration was signed by delegates from 12 colonies.
400
Named after one of King George's ministers, this act required colonists to pay taxes on all imported goods such as glass, paper, paint and tea.
What is known as the Townshend Acts
400
Significant event when representatives from all of the colonies gathered for the first time and talked about their common problems. They met in Philadelphia in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress
400
This was destroyed when the Declaration was read aloud in New York. It provided over 42,000 bullets for the colonists arsenals.
What is the statue of King George III
500
Gave a very emotional speech declaring "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" when speaking against the Stamp Act.
Who is Patrick Henry
500
April 18th-19th, 1775
What is the Ride of Paul Revere or the Battles of Lexington/Concord
500
One of the world's greatest documents of freedom that provided the foundation for many of the rights we enjoy today (j.hakim, pg 470). Its name means "great charter"
What is the Magna Carta
500
It was here, where George Washington was appointed General of the Continental Army, a petition was signed and sent to King George III looking for peace one last time and producing a Declaration of Independence.
What is the Second Continental Congress
500
It was to tell the colonists beliefs about good government;
tell what King George had done wrong;
announce that the colonies were now free and independent states.
What were the reasons for writing the Declaration of Independence