The unfortunate demise of Crispus Attucks - 1770 event that reinforced British fears of American insolence.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
Geography/Knowledge of the region
What are the Americans?
100
This American victory in 1777 helped convince the French to side with the Americans.
What is Saratoga?
100
Possessed Quebec at the end of the negotiations.
What is the British?
100
Without the power to do this, the Confederation Congress had difficulty carrying out essential duties such as giving veterans a pension and ensuring that debts were paid.
What is raise or levy taxes?
200
The Coercive or Intolerable Acts of 1773-1774 were in response to this event:
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The opposite of the conventional, Continental style of warfare.
What is guerrilla warfare?
200
A huge moral victory for the Americans in 1775, two months after the war's start - named incorrectly.
What is Bunker Hill?
200
Possessed Florida at the end of negotiations.
What is Spain?
200
The most important role in one of the three branches of government enumerated in the articles of the Constitution, this position was left out of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the presidency?
300
Typically the only part of the colonial government not suspended by the Government Act.
What is the Royal Governor?
300
Leadership and discipline.
What are the British?
300
The bloodiest fighting on April 18th, 1775 actually occurred on the British return to Boston from this Massachusetts town.
What is Concord?
300
Essentially forced to evacuate the Southern colonies by 1782, 126 ships loaded with 11,000 of these left Charleston in that year alone.
What are Loyalists or Tories?
300
A boisterous response to high state taxes and perceived disrespect of Revolutionary War veterans in Massachusetts during 1787- underscored dire need for a system of national protection, among many other things.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
400
British legislation that appeased the French-Canadian Catholics while worrying the American protestants.
What is the Quebec Act?
400
This was never larger than 6,000 men.
What is the Continental Army?
400
The last major battle of the war, Lord Cornwallis' demise.
What is Yorktown?
400
This document officially ended the American Revolution in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
The single positive result of the Articles of Confederation, this act allowed for the successful and efficient surveying of new lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
Author of Poor Richard's Almanac, an increasingly loud agitator before the war, and an early advocate for independence via cooperation during the war.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
Considered to be the most effective branch of the British military.
What is the navy?
500
Nathaniel Greene's shining moment in North Carolina, avoided the "Crazy Man." A moral victory for the Americans, while a pyrrhic victory for the British, who suffered 2:1 casualties.
What is Guilford Courthouse?
500
The future second president of these United States, Ben Franklin, John Jay and this man formed the American task force assigned to France to discuss peace arrangements.
Who is John Adams?
500
The year the Articles of Confederation was created.