Hero of the French and Indian War and future first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
100
A Massacre and a Tea Party.
What is Boston?
100
This teacher is also a 3rd degree black belt in Taekwondo.
Who is Mr. Stuart?
200
This tax was intended, in part, to keep the East India Tea Company from going bankrupt.
What is the Tea Act?
200
This event prohibited American colonists from crossing the Appalachian Mountain range and settling lands set aside for Native Americans..
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
He travelled to England to petition the King and the Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act (he was also credited with discovering electricity.)
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The First Continental Congress
What is Philadelphia?
200
This High School side teacher's aide went to Penn State university for Biology and also backpacked all throughout Europe.
Who is Mr. Iezzi?
300
This placed a tax on anything printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
This event was a protest against the Townshend Acts that resulted in 5 Bostonians being shot and killed by British soldiers.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
He was the King of England during the time of the American Revolution.
Who is King George III ?
300
The first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
300
This Rugby employee is a secretary and also races drag racing cars on the weekend.
Who is Mrs. Buscio?
400
This was not a tax, but it was a law that required colonial governments to pay for housing for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
This event took place in Boston Harbor on the evening of December 16th, 1773, and was a protest against the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
Some historians consider this individual to be the first victim in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
The first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is the Jamestown Colony in Virginia?
400
This Rugby employee spent 6 years in the military.
Who is Mr. Aviles?
500
This series of taxes (named after a British politician) placed taxes on imports such as paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
500
Delegates from 12 of the original 13 colonies met in Philadelphia from September to October of 1774 to discuss what to do about the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
He famously stated to members of the First Continental Congress, "I am not a Virginian, but an American." He also famously stated, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
The first colony established by the Puritans in Massachusetts.
What is the Plymouth Colony?
500
These two Rugby Employees were graduates of Monmouth university.