British Action
What is the Boston Massacre?
Colonial supporters of the British during the war were called?
What are Loyalists?
The document, written by Thomas Jefferson, declared American independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This was a rebellion in 1763 led by Native Americans in the Great Lakes Region.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
What is the Stamp Act?
This river was crossed by Washington before the Battle of Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
This event, on Dec. 16, 1773, happened when the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This battle marked the end of the war with the British surrendering to George Washington.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This order by the British King closed the region west of the Appalachian Mountains to colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
This was signed in 1783, ended the war, and recognized American Independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This is a political group during colonial times that was founded to fight against British taxation and for the rights of colonists.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This battle occurred when the British broke out of Boston, defeating the Americans, but suffering heavy casualties as a result.
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Final victory of Cornwallis before the battle of Yorktown was here.
Where is Camden.
These were a series of laws passed by the British to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, including closing Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
This French general helped Washington end the war in Yorktown.
Who is Lafeyette?
This was a common tactic used by colonists in which they would refuse to buy British goods and services in protest of taxes.
What is a boycott?
This battle marked the turning point of the war, when George Washington defeated British troops coming in from Canada, in New York.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
First person to die during the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks
These were a series of legislation passed by the British in order to create and enforce the collection of taxes imported goods to the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This British king ruled during the American revolution.
Who is King George III?
This was a meeting of Delegates by all colonies except Georgia in 1774 that was supposed to respond to the Coercive Acts.
What was the First Continental Congress?
This battle occurred after Washington crossed the Delaware in the middle of the night.
What was the Battle of Trenton?