The Acts
Colonial Response
The People
Major Events
The Battles
100
The act that taxed all printed materials, and spawned the first economic boycott.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The initial way that the colonists protested new taxes.
What are Economic Boycotts?
100
Wrote "Common Sense."
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
War over a decade before the revolutionary war that had strong ties to the American Revolution.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
The site of the first official battle of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington, Mass.?
200
The act that established the Vice-Admiralty Courts to stop smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
200
The groups of young men responsible for enforcing boycotts in the colonies.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
200
Primary leader of the Albany Plan of Union
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The response to the Tea Act in Boston.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The site of the supposed arsenal the colonists were stashing for war, leading to the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Concord, Mass.?
300
The act that required the colonists to house British soldiers in their homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
The three actions that made the king a tyrant under the Oppositionist Ideology.
What are "If the army expands, jury trials are disbanded, and if taxes are raised?"
300
Prime Minister of Britain during the French and Indian War?
Who is William Pitt?
300
The meeting in Philadelphia that established the first official boycott of English goods.
What is the First Continental Congress?
300
The big moral victory for the U.S. that showed they could hold against the Brits. (still technically a loss)
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
The acts that taxed the import of paper, lead, glass, paint, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
The primary ideological response of the colonists to new taxes.
What is "No taxation without representation?"
400
Prime Minister of Britain that started the heavy taxation of the colonists.
Who is George Grenville?
400
The tragic event that happened in response to the Coercive Acts.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
The battle that proved to the French that the colonists could beat the British.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
500
The acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
500
The British reply to colonial ideological arguments.
What is "Virtual Representation?"
500
Famous Son of Liberty in Boston
Who is Samuel Adams?
500
The event that established the Continental Army.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
500
The city in the south that the Brits thought had a lot of loyalists that would support their war efforts.
What is Yorktown?
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