British soldiers killed five people during a fight in Boston, which was called this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
The Parliment created this tax to pay for the services that the colonists used in the colonies.
What is the Townshend Acts?
100
Britian needed to tax the American colonies because of this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
In 1775, many colonists prepared for war by joining this.
What is the militia?
100
These were the two groups that were seperated by the Proclamation of 1763.
Who are the colonists and the American Indians?
200
The Battle of Bunker Hills was fought on this hill?
What is Breed's Hill?
200
Samual Adam and the the Sons of Liberty organized a protest against this act.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
During the French and Indian War, the French relied in this group to be an ally.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
Colonists worked together to communicate with one another by forming this group.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
200
Britian gained a large amount of land after this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
300
On the night of December 16, 1773, several dozen Sons of Liberty boarded ships illegally. They threw tea into the harbor. This event is known as this.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
This group of women wove their own cloth to boycott the Townshend Acts.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
300
In 1774 this group wrote a letter to the British government asking Parliament to stop taxing the colonists.
What is First Continental Congress?
300
This was the main reason that colonists were angry about the new taxes in the colonies.
What is they did not have a say in the new taxes. (The colonists believed only their representatives could tax them.)
300
The first shot fired at Lexington and Concord is know as this.
What is "the shot heard 'round the world"?
400
During the Boston Massacre, this African American sailor was killed. He is remembered today as a hero.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
This tax not only taxed sugar, but other things like coffee and cloth.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
British soldiers stayed in the Ohio River Valley which caused this rebellion.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
400
Just before sunrise on April 19th, a small group of minutemen were waiting for British soldiers here. British told the minutemen to leave. As the minutemen turned to leave, someone fired a shot. It is unknown who fire first at this place.
What is Lexington?
400
Bostonians didn't like that they had to 'quarter' British soldiers. To 'quarter' means this.
What is provide food and shelter?
500
He became the commander of the the Continental Army in 1775.
Who is George Washington?
500
This tax was placed on anything printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
500
The Proclamation of 1763 by the Britian recognized American land rights and colonists felt this way about it.
What is the colonists were upset and angry?
500
When the British soldiers left Lexington they marched to this place. Here, the British searched for Patriot supplies. Minutemen gathered nearby and quickly fighting began again.
What is Concord?
500
The Second Continental Congress did not want to go to war with Britian. They wrote this petition and sent it to King George III.