FAMOUS PEOPLE OF THE REVOLUTION
WELL-KNOWN EVENTS
THE ACTS
LAWS LEADING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
British Generals
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During the American Revolution, he served in the Second Continental Congress. He also owned a print shop in Philadelphia. He was taken out of school very early.
Who was BENJAMIN FRANKLIN?
100
Colonists rebelled because of a tax and dumped a certain beverage into the ocean.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
100
This act basically gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea trade in the Americas.
What was the Tea Act?
100
This act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
What was the Declaratory Act?
100
He was commander of British troops during the American War of Independence, specifically leading the defense during the Battle of Quebec.
Who was General Sir Guy Carleton?
200
During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero.
Who was GEORGE WASHINGTON?
200
Colonists were mad at the British and some were killed in this tragic event in Boston.
What was the Boston Massacre?
200
This British law required certain printed materials including newspapers in America be on paper produced in Britain and stamped with a revenue stamp.
What was the Stamp Act?
200
This act is a former Act of the Parliament of Great Britain enacted in 1732 to prevent and control hat production by the colonists in British America.
What was the Hat Act?
200
He led the British as Commander-in-Chief for much of the American Revolution. His meticulous record-keeping has given us our only historical information on some Revolutionary War spies.
Who was Henry Clinton?
300
He wrote the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, and he later became President of the United States.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
300
This war was fought between Britain, and the French, who were allies with the natives.
What was the French and Indian war?
300
This British law charged duties on sugar imported by the colonies. Several other products were also taxed.
What was the Sugar Act?
300
These acts were a series of English laws that restricted colonial trade to England. They were first enacted in 1651 and throughout that time until 1663,[1] and were repealed in 1849. They reflected the policy of mercantilism, which sought to keep all the benefits of trade inside the Empire, and to minimize the loss of gold and silver to foreigners. They prohibited the colonies from trading directly with the Netherlands, Spain, France, and their colonies.
What were the Navigation Acts?
300
He was blamed by General Henry Clinton for the loss of the colonies, but he proved to be a capable general and politician in Ireland and India after the Revolutionary War.
Who was Lord General Charles Cornwallis?
400
He came up with the Townshend Acts.
Who was Charles Townshend?
400
This was a series of laws also called the Coercive Acts passed by Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
400
Several Acts which regulated the issuing of money by the American colonist.
What was the Currency Act?
400
This Act sought to increase the importation of pig and bar iron from its American colonies and to prevent the building of iron-related production facilities within these colonies, particularly in North America where these materials were found.
What Iron Act?
400
He was the other British Commander-in-Chief during the American Revolution. He captured New York and Philadelphia.
Who was William Howe?
500
He was the governor of Massachusetts in the early 1770s who was for an independent American colonies.
Who was Thomas Hutchinson?
500
This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed.
What was the Quartering Act?
500
A series of acts passed By Britain beginning in 1767 that taxed the colonies.
What were the Townshend Acts?
500
This act was passed as a measure of counter-attack by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in the American colonies, which became known as the American Revolutionary War (or, to the British, the American War of Independence). It declared and provided for a naval blockade against American ports.
What was the Prohibitory Act?
500
Although he didn't earn the title General until after the Revolutionary War, he was one of the most well known British soldier, remembered for the title, "The Most Hated Officer in America."
Who was General Sir Banastre Tarleton?
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