No Taxation Without Representation
No Taxation Without Representation
A Meeting in Philadelphia/Declaring Independence
Declaring Independence/American Revolution
American Revolution
100
This prohibited the American colonists from moving westward of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
This law taxed imported goods, such as glass, tea, and paper.
What are the Townshend Acts?
100
In September 1774, fifty-five delegates gathered in Philadelphia to set up a political body to address the policies of the British. The delegates called this body this.
What is the Continental Congress?
100
This document has the following four parts: - Preamble - The Rights of Men; Natural Rights - Grievances or Complaints against the King - Resolves independence- the break from Britain and established a new nation
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This person was caught as an American spy (disguised as a Dutch schoolteacher). He was caught by the British and was hanged. It is said that he stated, "I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country."
Who is Nathan Hale?
200
These documents allowed the officers to search almost anywhere-shops, warehouses, and even private homes for smuggled goods.
What is writs of assistance?
200
This tension in the streets of Boston left five colonists killed, including Crispus Attucks who was part African and Native American.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
These places are often considered the beginning of the American Revolution, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that the Americans at these had fired the "shot heard 'round the world."
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
200
America celebrates its Declaration of Independence on this date.
What is July 4, (1776)?
200
There was a growing need to have African soldiers fight against the British. There was only one state that refused to enlist Africans to fight in the American Revolution.
What is South Carolina?
300
This law lowered the tax on molasses the colonists imported, but it still angered the colonists.
What is the Sugar Act?
300
He is the cousin of John Adams and revived the committee of correspondence which circulated calls for action against Britain; he is also credited with organizing the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
This battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill. Though the Americans lost this battle, the British learned that defeating the Americans on the battlefield would be neither quick nor easy. The Americans lost this battle only because they ran out of gunpowder.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
The Continental Congress established established these well-trained soldiers who could fight the British throughout the colonies; George Washington was this groups leader.
What is the Continental Army?
300
In this battle, Washington crossed the icy Delaware River on Christmas night to attack British soldiers. Washington's army scattered the British force.
What is the Battles of Trenton and Princeton?
400
This law tax almost all printed materials.
What is Stamp Act?
400
Colonists dressed as Native American boarding and tossing British tea into the Boston harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
This patriot wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense that called for the complete break from British rule.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley jointed her husband in battle, and because she carried water pitchers to the soldiers, she was called this.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
400
In this battle the Continental Army had won an enormous victory that changed the course of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
500
People in the colonial cities urged merchants to do this by refusing to buy British goods in protest.
What is a boycott?
500
When the Americans tossed tea into the Boston harbor, Parliament responded with these acts; these acts banned town meetings in Massachusetts; closed the Boston Harbor. The British called them the Coercive Acts but the American colonists called them this.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
This person is known as the write of the Declaration of Independence, and drew on the ideas from John Locke to explain why the 13 colonies were proclaiming their freedom.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
She joined up as a soldier by disguising herself as a man.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
500
Major Battle/Victory for the Americans: The British were trapped; Cornwallis (British) were trapped by the French ships that guarded the Chesapeake Bay; the American and French forces began a siege, they blocked off the British supply and escape routes.
What is Yorktown?
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