British Overreach
This is the name of the act by Parliament that put additional taxes on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the event where colonists, in protest, dumped 340 chests off of a trading ship, destroying their contents.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This is the name of the military force that fought against the British.
What is the Continental Army?
This is the name of the foreign power that came to America's aid during the Revolution.
What is France?
This founding father oversaw the revolutionary military and led them to victory.
Who is George Washington?
This is the name of the act by Parliament that limited the American colonists from expanding their settlements beyond a specific border.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Bonus 100pts:
What happened to the people who were already settled on the other side of the border?
When protestors were throwing rocks and snowballs at the British troops, this was the troops' reaction.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Bonus 100pts:
How many people were killed?
This battle happened after George Washington crossed the Delaware river.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
Many of the British loyalists left for this country after the end of the Revolution.
What is Canada?
This founding father discovered electricity, and was considered a celebrity in France.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is the act of Parliament claiming they represented "all in the British empire," without the colonists having any rights to elect members of their own.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is "virtual representation?"
This was a militant group of protestors that advocated for independence from the British.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This is the battle that convinced the French to support America in their war against the British.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This was a pamphlet written to convince the colonial population that independence was necessary.
What is Thomas Paine's "Common Sense?"
This founding father was known for being abrasive and rude, but he was a great political thinker.
Who is John Adams?
These Acts were in response to the Boston Tea Party, and restricted the self-government of Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This is the name of the governmental body that wrote and approved the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
Bonus 100pts:
Which colony decided to abstain from authorizing the Declaration?
This is the name of the battle that signified the end of the Revolutionary War, with the Americans as the victor.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This is the concept of an independent nation having control of its own territory and borders.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is sovereignty?
These Acts restricted American colonial trade to only service the British homeland.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This is the name of the communication the Americans had with the British as a last-ditch effort to settle peace.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
These are three (of many) points of grievance the Americans had when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Answers may vary.
This is the year that the revolutionary war officially ended.
What happened in 1783?
Bonus 100pts:
What is the name of the treaty that was brokered between the British and Americans?
This is the name of Miss Harry's ancestor from South Carolina that signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is William Hooper?