The Trouble With England
The event in which the Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into the Boston Harbor
What is The Boston Tea Party?
The name of the two towns where the first battles of the American Revolution took place.
What are Lexington and Concord?
What is the name of the Cherokee woman who warned the settlers that the Cherokee were about to attack?
Who is Nancy Ward, Beloved Woman?
What was the name of the Regulators who met at Sycamore Shoals to go fight the British at King's Mountain?
Who were the Overmountain Men?
Another word for unbearable.
What is intolerable?
This was the quote that many colonists cried when they were being over taxed without having a say in the British Parliament.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
The name of one of the members of the Colonial Army who warned the colonists if the British were coming by land or sea.
Who is Paul Revere?
What two states (colonies) did the Watauga settlers write two asking for protection from the Indians and the British?
Who were North Carolina and Virginia?
What did the victory at King's Mountain do for the Patriots?
What is it showed them they could win the war?
What term means having to house and feed British soldiers against their will?
What is quartering?
The name for the lease agreement of land by William Bean and James Robertson from the Cherokees and Little Carpenter.
What is the Watauga Purchase?
The colonists called these people by this name because they had to be ready to fight in a minute.
Who were minutemen?
What name did the Wataugans decide to change their settlement to in honor of a great leader?
What is Washington District?
Who was the British General who surrendered at Yorktown?
Who is General Cornwallis?
A person chosen to act for others.
What is a delegate?
This is what the Cherokees lost in the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals.
What is 20 million acres of land?
The name of the meeting in Philadelphia where 12 of the 13 colonies sent delegates to talk about the problems they were having with the British government.
What is The First Continental Congress?
How did French Lick get its name?
What is its soil had a large salt content?
What was the name of the treaty that was signed after the American Revolutionary War?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
A sudden replacing of one government with another.
What is revolution?
The name of the battle between the 2000 Regulators and the 1000 North Carolina militia over freedom to set their own taxes and rules (Governor Tyron thought they were rioting and being unruly!)
What is the Battle of Alamance?
Thomas Paine wrote this best selling pamphlet which urged the colonists to break away from England.
What is Common Sense?
When the two groups traveling by land and water to the Cumberland settlements arrived, what did they change their name to?
What is Fort Nashborough?
What were the names of the two large settlements in Tennessee at the end of the American Revolution?
What are Watauga and Cumberland (or Fort Nashborough)?
To stop buying something specifically to make a point or to change a law.
What is boycott?