British or Colonists?
A group that dumped tea overboard during the Boston Tea Party.
Who were the Colonists?
The leader of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
Someone who is chosen to speak or act for a group of people.
Who is a delegate?
The tax that was placed on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act.
Five colonists were killed after a snowball fight broke out.
what is the Boston Massacre?
They passed the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts.
One who rode all night to warn people that the British soldiers were coming.
Who was Paul Revere?
A group that remained loyal to the King.
Who is a Loyalist?
This tax was placed on all legal documents including birth certificates.
What is the Stamp Act?
Where did New Jersey's tea party occur?
What is Greenwich?
They met at the Continental Congress.
Who were the Colonists?
He wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The group that wanted their independence from Great Britain?
Who are the Patriots?
Proprietors thought they still owned land that settlers bought from the Indians which led to this event.
What are the Horseneck Riots?
The state that did NOT send a delegate to the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
George Washington led a group across the Delaware River in 1776.
Who were the Colonists.
A secret group of men who were against Great Britain's taxes.
Who were The Sons of Liberty?
The colonist were angry because the British forced them to pay ________.
What are taxes?
The number of delegates that New Jersey sent to the First Continental Congress.
What is five?
They helped American win the war by bringing troops and ships.
Who are the French?
In 1786, they surrendered to George Washington.
Who were the British?
A delegate from Massachusetts that signed his name very large on the Declaration of Independence so that the King would not have to use spectacles to read his name.
Who is John Hancock?
A legal paper showing ownership.
What is a deed?
This happened at the Boston Tea Party.
The Sons of Liberty and other colonists dressed as Indians and raided British ships in the Boston Harbor. They dumped all of the tea overboard.
During this battle George Washington crossed the Delaware River.
What is the Battle of Trenton?