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Leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston
Samuel Adams
100
1775
Battle of Lexington and Concord
100
Tax on paper goods
Stamp Act
100
This battle began the Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington and Concord
100
Crossing the Delaware
200
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
200
1773
Boston Tea Party
200
To not buy goods as an act of protest
Boycott
200
This battle led directly to the Franco-American Alliance
Saratoga
200
This section of the Declaration of Independence lists the ways the Great Britain has trampled on American rights
List of Grievences
300
This King decided to help the Americans in the Revolutionary War
King Louis XVI
300
1770
Boston Massacre
300
This group of laws punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
300
Immediately before this battle, Washington's army crossed the Delaware
Battle of Trenton
300
This section of the Declaration of Independence outlines America's values
Preamble
400
The American general who used a strategy of fighting, retreating, and wearing down the British in the South?
Nathanael Greene
400
1781
Yorktown
400
The Continental Congress sent this to King George III in a final attempt to seek peace
The Olive Branch Petition
400
Though technically a British victory, this battle showed the Americans would not be easily defeated
Bunker Hill
400
The meeting between the colonies at Philadelphia to determine a collective response to the Intolerable Acts
1st Continental Congress
500
Boston doctor and Son of Liberty who sent Paul Revere on his Midnight Ride and was later killed at Bunker Hill
Joseph Warren
500
1783
Treaty of Paris
500
This political body in Great Britain taxed the colonies without representing them
Parliament
500
This devastating British victory was helped by General Horatio Gates fleeing his from the Continental Army in the heat of battle
Camden
500
This country was the last to join the Revolutionary War in 1780, after the United States, Great Britain, France and Spain.
The Netherlands