The insurgency group that led most of the boycotts and protests in Boston.
What is The Sons of Liberty?
100
The leader of the British Empire during the War. Make sure you have the right number!
Who is George III?
100
This Virginian Orator yelled out in public, "Give me Liberty or give me Death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
100
The man missing from the Committee of 5: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman.
Who is Robert Livingston?
100
The style of fighting where smaller groups use ambushes and raids to slow down a larger army.
What is Guerrilla Warfare?
200
March 5th, 1770. 5 Boston Citizens die at the hands of British Soldiers. The event becomes known by this name.
What is The Boston Massacre?
200
This placed a tax on about 54 different types of paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
He got the ball rolling on the Declaration of Independence by stating the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states!
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
200
Rights that are natural and can never be taken from you.
What are "unalienable rights?"
200
His only regret was that he only had one life to lose for his country.
Who is Nathan Hale?
300
The turning point of the War
What is The Battle of Saratoga
300
This forced the citizens of Boston to house and feed British soldiers against their will.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
"This patriot, engaged in a lengthy newspaper battle with Samuel Seabury, would sign all of his letters "The Farmer Refuted."
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
The number of delegates who signed the Declaration.
What is 56?
300
Soldiers of the Continental Army faced starvation, angry Loyalists, and the desire to desert at this famous winter camp.
What is Valley Forge?
400
1st major engagement of the war. British easily overmatch and defeat Patriot troops.
What is The Battle of Long Island?
400
This placed a tax on paint, tea, glass, and lead imported into the colonies. British refusal to lift the tax on tea leads to the Tea Party.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
This navy commander said "Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!"
Who is John Paul Jones?
400
The third part of the Declaration of Independence addresses the abuses of the King such as Unjust abuse of power, Unjust Acts, and this last group.
What are "The War Acts?"
400
This phenomenon explains the feeling that the colonists saw themselves as "less British" and "more and more American" over the years.
What is Erosion of Primary Culture?
500
The Continental Army secured a huge victory at this site between the colonies of North and South Carolina.
What is the Battle of King's Mountain?
500
The "apology letter" written by the 2nd Continental Congress. It is said the King didn't even read it.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
500
Ben Franklin: "Three may keep a secret if . . . "
What is "two of them are dead."
500
Name a member of the New Jersey Delegation that signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark?
500
Thomas Paine talked about "Common Sense" when he wrote that "It is unnatural for an island to govern a continent." He got much more serious when writing an essay about "summer soldiers and sunshine patriots." This was the name of that essay.