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100
The refusal to buy certain goods for political reasons.
What is boycott?
100
The British called the colonial army rebels, while colonists called them ________.
What is Patriots?
100
An attempt to stop smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act
100
Low point for the Continental Army for hunger and disease, but where they received training from Friedrich Von Steuben...
What is Valley Forge?
100

This British General surrendered at Yorktown.

Who was Cornwallis?

200
The Sons of Liberty was a response to this unpopular law....
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Colonists who remained committed to Great Britain and King George were called______.
What is loyalists?
200
An indirect tax on materials imported from Britain such as glass, lead, paint, and paper
What is the Townshend Act?
200
He marched south from Montreal and was defeated at Saratoga.
Who was General Burgoyne?
200

This battle was the turning point of the war.  After this battle, the French allied with the Patriots.

What was Saratoga?

300
This young French officer convinced France to send soldiers and the French Navy.
Who was the Marquis de Lafayette?
300

He wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense, arguing that the time had come for American independence

Who was Thomas Paine?

300
A direct tax on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards and dice.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
He was killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
300

The Patriots were successful partially due to help from these allies?

Who were the French and the Prussians?

400
the belief in the equality of people
What is egalitarianism?
400
He trained American troops to become an effective fighting force.
Who was Friedrich Von Steuben?
400
These Acts were punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
One reason that the British were defeated at Yorktown is that Yorktown is a...
What is peninsula?
400

The Patriot army scored a much needed first victory as a result of a surprise winter attack here.

Trenton, New Jersey

500
Jefferson "stole" ideas from this Enlightenment thinker.
Who was John Locke?
500
He encouraged groups like the Sons of Liberty to terrorize the British.
Who was Sam Adams?
500
The Act said that British soldiers could be housed in private homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
500
This treaty gave a new America all of the land East of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
500

This battle happened on April 19, 1775.

What was Lexington and Concord?

(remember, we call it a battle, but is was really a fifteen minute skirmish)

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