Terrible Taxes
Brutal Battles
Date Night
Cause and Effect
Misc.
100
This 1773 tax made the 'after work drink' substantially more expensive.
What is the Tea Act?
100
This conflict pitted French Fur traders and their Native allies against British troops in a contest for control over the North American continent.
What is the French Indian War?
100
The French Indian War ended in this year.
What is 1763?
100
Because they had a long history of trading with Native Americans most tribes sided with this country during the French Indian War.
What is France?
100
This term describes the colonists who despised the King and wanted to form their own nation.
Who are Patriots?
200
This 1765 tax forced those who liked to read newspapers, play with cards, and write letters very unhappy.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
This battle featured the infamous "shot heard around the world" and is believed to have started the actual fighting during the American Revolution.
What is the Battle at Lexington & Concord?
200
The Declaration of Independence was signed in this year.
What is 1776?
200
When the British crown needed to recoup lost wealth after the French Indian War they imposed a series of these on the colonists living in North America.
What are taxes?
200
This term describes the colonists who thought the King was the colonists' true ruler, and advocated for his continued control.
Who are Loyalists?
300
This 1764 tax wasn't very sweet, despite its name.
What is the Sugar Act?
300
George Washington and his troops crossed this river on their way to attack enemy troops in Trenton, New Jersey. This crossing was the inspiration for a famous 19th century painting that was created almost 100 years after the event.
What is The Delaware River?
300
This was the year the Boston Massacre occurred.
What is 1770?
300
This event ended with 5 men dying after a clash between the British troops sent to guard Boston, and the patriots living there.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
Because there was no existing American Army at the time of the revolution, these volunteer fighting forces (consisting mostly of farmers and shopkeepers) were absolutely essential to America's victory over the British.
What are militias?
400
These taxes were actually a series of the same act(s) implemented over a course of years. The revenue from these taxes were used to pay the salaries of British elites working in the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
This battle marked a major turning point in the Revolutionary War, and indicated the Americans would win. This battle also persuaded France to aid the Americans in their efforts to defeat the British.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
400
This was the year the Royal Proclamation was declared.
What is 1763?
400
This destructive event occurred after colonists' frustrations peaked over a tax on their favorite beverage.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
This atypical form of warfare was implemented by the patriots to account for their inferior numbers.
What is guerrilla warfare?
500
This man was the royal tyrant responsible for all the taxation in the colonies.
Who is King George III?
500
This was the final major battle of the Revolutionary war, ending with a decisive American victory that eventually prompted a British surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
500
The American Revolutionary War ended in this year.
What is 1783?
500
The British crown implemented these in response to colonists' refusal to obey the crown; the closure of Boston Harbor is one of the most infamous.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
This pamphlet encouraged colonists to question the validity of having a King rule citizens, and instead encouraged a democratic government in which the people had the power.
What is Common Sense?
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