Battles
This was the first battle where colonists and British soldiers fought and is often called "the shot heard 'round the world."
What is the Battle of Lexington?
He was the commander of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
This law taxed newspapers, legal documents, and many printed items and made colonists angry.
What is the Stamp Act?
The name for the army made by the colonies and led by George Washington.
What is the Continental Army?
What were the first tax laws imposed by Britain on the colonies without colonial representation called?
What is the Stamp Act?
This battle in New York state was a turning point because the American victory convinced France to help the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This colonial silversmith and rider warned that British soldiers were coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
These laws taxed imported goods like glass, tea, and paper and led to boycotts by colonists.
What are the Townshend Acts?
A formal meeting of delegates from the colonies used to make important decisions.
What is the Continental Congress?
Which event in 1773 involved the Sons of Liberty protesting the taxes?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Fought mostly on Breed's Hill, this early battle showed the colonists could stand up to British regulars even though the colonists lost the ground.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
He was the king of Britain during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
Colonists protested this act by dumping tea into Boston Harbor in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A word for a law or rule passed by a government; colonists protested these when they felt unfair.
What is an act?
The Boston Tea Party caused Britain to create this Intolerable Act until the tea was paid off.
What is The Boston Port Act?
This 1781 battle in Virginia ended major fighting in the war when British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This British general surrendered at Yorktown in 1781.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
Passed after the Boston Tea Party, these harsh laws punished Massachusetts and limited town meetings.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The right to have a voice in government decisions, often stated by colonists in a phrase.
What is representation?
Name two reasons the colonists were unhappy with British rule.
Examples: taxes on tea, sugar, stamps; trade restrictions;Intolerable Acts, etc.
Name the conflict in which colonial militias and the Continental Army fought British troops across many years leading to American independence.
What is the American Revolution (or Revolutionary War)?
Name a group leader who met in Philadelphia to discuss colonial concerns and later to plan for independence (answer may identify a well-known leader or the group name).
What is the Continental Congress (or a leader who attended, e.g., John Adams)?
This event was used by colonists as an example of British soldiers acting violently in Boston in 1770, where several colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The idea of refusing to buy or use goods to show protest and pressure leaders to change.
What is a boycott?
Name two reasons the colonists went to war with Great Britain?
Multiple answers-->
-- Unfair taxes
-- No taxation without representation
-- Intolerable Acts
-- Colonists protesting