This placed a tax on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. All of these items were stamped to indicate the tax.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
This gathering was a direct protest of the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
The man who drew this famous cartoon was influential in gaining support from France, among many other things.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
This was the location of the “shot heard round the world.”
What is Lexington, Massachusetts?
100
The DoI was written mainly by this man.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This required colonists to provide shelter and supplies to British troops. Sometimes even in there own homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
This event, that was exaggerated by the patriots, led to five dead colonial civilians.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Leader of Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
200
This was the town George Washington took after defeating the Hessians at Trenton.
What is Princeton, NJ?
200
The DoI was included this many Grievances, or formal complaints, against King George III.
What is 27?
300
This tax was placed on British tea coming into the colonies and it gave the British a monopoly on tea.
What is the Tea Act/Tax?
300
This group led, sometimes violent, protests against people working in the interest of King George III.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
300
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The final peace treaty of the Revolutionary War was signed in this city.
What is Paris, France?
300
The DoI was RATIFIED on this famous date.
What is July 4, 1776?
400
This law forbade colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
This was a non violent type of protest used frequently by the Patriots.
What is a boycott?
400
President of the Continental Congress and first man to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
400
Washington and his troops suffered disease and famine at this location in Pennsylvania.
What is Valley Forge?
400
The DoI was signed by the majority of the 56 men who signed it on this not so famous date.
What is August 2, 1776?
500
This was the first tax placed on the colonists by King George.
What is the Sugar Tax?
500
This man was the leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
500
This man was the general in charge of British troops at Yorktown. He was a coward.
Who is Charles Cornwallis?
500
This fort changed hands many times it the late 1700’s. It was last invaded and taken by the British on the way to Saratoga,
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
500
The DoI states that all people are born with this.