Protest & Punishment
This 1773 law allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
Delegates from the colonies met at this gathering in Philadelphia in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
These two Massachusetts towns were the sites of the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This silversmith helped warn colonists that British troops were moving toward Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
Colonists sent this final attempt at peace to King George III in 1775.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
During this event, colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The First Continental Congress encouraged colonists to continue doing this to British goods.
What is boycotting British goods?
British troops marched toward Concord mainly to seize these colonial supplies.
What are weapons and ammunition?
The Second Continental Congress selected this Virginian to command the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
King George III responded to colonial resistance by declaring that the colonies were in this state.
What is rebellion?
Britain passed these harsh laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
These citizen soldiers trained and prepared to fight on short notice.
Who are minutemen?
This phrase describes the first gunfire at Lexington and Concord because the fighting began a revolution with worldwide importance.
What is “the shot heard ’round the world”?
This group became the official army of the colonies.
What is the Continental Army?
Thomas Paine's pamphlet that argued ordinary colonists should support independence was called this.
What is Common Sense?
One of the Coercive Acts closed this important location until the destroyed tea was paid for.
What is Boston Harbor?
Colonists formed these military groups because they believed fighting with Britain might soon occur.
What are militias?
Although the British captured the position, colonial forces showed they could fight effectively during this battle near Boston.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This writer published Common Sense and strongly argued for American independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
What major idea did Common Sense encourage colonists to support?
What is independence from Great Britain?
Explain why the Coercive Acts actually helped bring the colonies closer together.
Other colonies believed Britain was threatening colonial rights, so they supported Massachusetts and began working together against British policies.
What was one important result of the First Continental Congress?
Why was the Battle of Bunker Hill important even though the British won?
The British suffered heavy casualties, and the battle showed that colonial forces were willing and able to fight the British army.
These colonists supported breaking away from Great Britain.
Who are Patriots?
Put these events in the correct order:
Common Sense • Boston Tea Party • Lexington and Concord • Coercive Acts • First Continental Congress
Boston Tea Party → Coercive Acts → First Continental Congress → Lexington and Concord → Common Sense