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100
This set a tax on sugar and other items being imported into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
The motherland of the colonies
What is Great Britain?
100
Known for his night ride, announcing the arrival of the British soldiers.
Who is Paul Revere?
100
Disguised colonists boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped the tea into the water.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
100
The Sugar Act was passed on this date.
What is the year 1764?
200
This essentially put a(n) internal tax on paper items in the American colonies.
What is The Stamp Act?
200
They fought much of the war in America during the Seven Years War.
What is the Colonies?
200
The king of England shortly after the Seven Years War.
Who was King George III?
200
This war helped double the British Empire and gave the colonies one of the last good connections to the motherland prior to the Revolution.
What was the Seven Years War?
200
The Stamp Act was passed on this date.
What is the year 1765?
300
This was passed by Parliament to lure colonists into buying a key East India Trading Company Product.
What is The Tea Act?
300
The nation Britain/the colonists were at war with in Northern America.
What is France?
300
Was the commander of the colonial forces during the Seven Year War.
Who is George Washington?
300
The first battle of the Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
300
The Revenue Act was passed on this date.
What is the year 1767?
400
This Act was passed by Parliament to repeal another, but to also re-enforce their authority.
What is the Declaratory Act?
400
This body passed much of the laws throughout the British Empire.
What is Parliament?
400
Was popular among the colonists for his advocacy for them in Parliament, later replaced due to health reasons.
Who is William Pitt?
400
This event resulted in the death of five people after a crowd angered, by the death of a boy by a customs agent, gathered at the customs house.
What is The Boston Massacre?
400
The Battle of Lexington and Concord happened on this day.
What is April 19, 1775
500
These series of punitive acts were all together called Intolerable Acts, passed after the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act?
500
This group met in response to the Intolerable Acts and would later send the Olive Branch Petition to England.
What is The First Continental Congress?
500
Was popular both in Britain and in the colonies, he denounced George III's policies, and was later arrested and jailed.
Who is John Wilkes?
500
This massacre was caused primarily by John Wilkes arrest and the provocation by his supporters on the guards.
What was the St. George's Field Massacre?
500
The Declaratory Act was passed in this year.
What is the year 1766?
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