Key Terms
Battles
The Acts
People
Wild Card
100
Unit of militia "ready to fight at a minute's notice"
Who are minutemen.
100
American victory at this battle led to France's entry into the war.
What is Battle of Saratoga
100
Issued by King George stating that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763
100
The then British general who started the French and Indian War
George Washington
100
British soldiers killed 6 colonists in 1770
The Boston Massacre
200
These were created for colonies to communicate with each other about British activities. Helped unify the colonies.
What is committee of Correspondence
200
At Valley Forge, his French officer, along with Frederich von Steuben, helped boost morale and improve colonial soldier discipline.
What is Marquis de Lafayette
200
This act stated that colonists had to pay for the housing of British troops.
What is the Quartering Act
200
Back country farmers who saw the king as their protector.
Loyalists.
200
Colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped chests of Tea into the harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
300
Taxes on imports and exports
What are customs duties
300
The battle that led to the end of the Revolutionary War. Gen. Cornwallis surrendered here.
What is Battle of Yorktown.
300
The First direct tax on the colonists. Taxed items such as newspapers, playing cards and deeds.
What is the Stamp Act
300
A Pensylvannia banker and merchant who helped fund the war effort for the colonies.
Robert Morris
300
A group who spun their own cloth called "homespun"
Daughters of Liberty
400
This is grown by farmers primarily to sell
What is a cash crop
400
American naval officer who won the most famous naval battle of the Revolution.
Who is John Paul Jones
400
These acts were put in place to punish the colony of Massachusetts. The name given to the Coercive and Quebec Acts.
What is the Intolerable Acts.
400
wrote the pamphlet against "taxation without representation"
James Otis
400
Colonies used these to protests British taxation on goods. Pledging not to buy British goods.
Nonimportation agreement
500
Hiding among the trees and ambushing the enemy and their supplies is known as this.
What is guerrilla warfare
500
The British attempted to take the arsenal here. The first shots of the war. "Shot heard around the world"
What is Lexington and Concord.
500
This act led to the British being able to sieze goods without due process. Also taxed goods, such as molases.
What is the Sugar Act
500
The British general who led the takeover of New York and Philadelphia
Who is General Howe
500
A document sent to King George III claiming the colonies loyalty and asking to resolve issues peacefully.
The Olive Branch Petition
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