This happens when money loses its value over time.
What is inflation.
100
This was a special unit of militia in the town of Concord
What are minutemen?
100
This place was the winter quarters for the Continental Army.
What is Valley Forge?
100
This declared that Virginia no longer had an official church, and that the state would not collect taxes for churches.
What is the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
100
This proposed that the colonies unite to form a federal government.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
200
This forced the colonies to pay more for their own defense.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine attacked the monarchy.
What is Common Sense?
200
This person led the most famous small militia unit in the South.
Who is Francis Marion?
200
This is a form of government where power resides with a body of citizens entitled to vote.
What is a republic?
300
Although Parliament had imposed many taxes on trade, this was the first direct tax Britain had ever placed on the colonists.
What is the stamp tax.
300
Britain intended to punish Massachusetts with these laws for the Boston Tea Party and end colonial challenges to British authority.
What are the Coercive Acts?
300
This American naval officer was involved in perhaps the most famous naval battle of the war, which happened near Britain in September 1779.
Who is John Paul Jones?
300
This was the first state university in the nation.
What is the University of North Carolina.
400
Fighting between the British and French that began in 1754 in North America is known as this.
What is the French and Indian War.
400
This document expressed loyalty to the king, but condemned the Coercive Acts and announced that the colonies were forming a non-importation assocation.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Grievances?
400
This type of fighting was utilized by the local militias in the colonies fought differently than the Continental Army.
What is guerrilla warfare?
400
In an effort to undermine the colonial economy and hurt the rebellion in the South, the British army freed thousands of these.
What are enslaved people?
500
On March 5, 1770, a crowd of colonists began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British soldiers guarding a customs house, which resulted in this.
What is the Boston Massacre?
500
These are Americans that backed Britain.
What are Loyalists?
500
On the night of December 15, 1776, George Washington led approximately 2,400 men across this icy river.
What is the Delaware?
500
In 1816 AFrican American church leaders formed this, the first independence African American denomination.