British Oppression
This 1764 Act of Parliament gave a cavity to the British North American sweet tooth.
What is the Sugar Act?
Virginia made its money from this smokey crop.
What is tobacco?
This Massachusetts man is remembered for seeing two lanterns in a church back in April 1775.
Who was Paul Revere?
This electric American advocated Albany Conference to unite British North Americans in common defense.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This indigenous princess is erroneously remembered for her true love of John Smith.
Who was Pocohontas?
This 1765 Parliamentary Act made reading periodicals in the colonies just a bit more expensive
What is the Stamp Act?
Home of Cape Cod, cod fish was a primary export of this New England colony.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
Not so long after "the shot heard round the world," Continentals weren't firing "till they saw the whites of their eyes" at which misnamed Revolutionary War battle?
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The better known name for the North American theater of the Seven Years War.
What is the French and Indian War?
This indigenous tribe led by Massasoit made an early alliance with the Pilgrims.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer (a British finance minister) in 1767-1768, these acts taxed glass, lead and paint. They also established Admiralty Courts to try smugglers away from their peers.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Rice-a-Roni may be the San Francisco treat, but this 1663 "southern" Southern colony made rice its principal export.
What is South Carolina?
Gilbert de Motier, the twenty-year old French confidant and trusted general of George Washington, is better remembered by this title
Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
These colonial pen pal groups coordinated responses to what they viewed as Parliamentary oppression
This indigenous group was largely killed off during the Battle of the Great Swamp in 1675
Who are the Narragansett?
The 1774 Boston Port Act closing the Port of Boston was one of this outrageous grouping of Parliamentary initiatives.
What are the Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts?
Originally a proprietary colony, many Quakers found refuge in this mid-Atlantic colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
This Revolutionary War hero turned traitor fought in Quebec before fighting alongside Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
This colony didn't even show up to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
This native people fought the Virginians in a series of conflicts known as the Tidewater Wars.
Who are the Powhatan?
The crown's sudden enforcement of the Navigation Acts ended this long standing policy toward smugglers.
What is "salutary neglect"?
North Carolinians were just "dyeing" to sell this major agricultural export.
What is indigo?
Alongside Morristown, New Jersey, this Pennsylvania winter quarters location is synonymous with suffering.
What is Valley Forge?
This early commander of George Washington fell during a French ambush early in the Seven Years War
Who was General Braddock?
King Philip, also known by this name, resisted English Christianizing efforts, and abandoned the peace forged by Massasoit leading to a brutal and bloody conflict.
Who was Metacomet or Metacom