The name of the important meeting where 55 delegates met to decided how to deal with the British taxes and Acts.
What was the Continental Congress?
100
Civilian men who were ready to fight the British with only a minutes notice.
Who were the "Minutemen?"
100
Colonel Prescott's order to his men on Breed's Hill when they were running out of ammunition and gunpowder.
What was "Don't fire til you see the white's of their eyes!"?
100
The British lost this many soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
What is 1000 soldiers?
200
The meeting place where the Continental Congress met to challenge British control in the colonies.
Where was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
200
HE ordered General Thomas Gage to seize ammunition and arms stored in Concord and arrest the leaders.
Who was King George III?
200
It's what the British discovered about the Patriot's after the Battle of Bunker Hill.
What was that fighting the Patriot's was not going to be easy as they thought it would be?
200
Americans who stayed loyal to the King and were against the war.
Who were the Loyalists?
300
The only colony not invited to be part of the Continental Congress.
What was Georgia?
300
The two men who rode through the countryside spreading the alarm that the "British are Coming!"
Who were Paul Revere and William Dawes?
300
It was called the "Battle of Bunker Hill", but it was actually fought on this hill?
What was Breed's Hill?"
300
The Patriots did this to the Redcoats as they marched back to Boston from Lexington.
What is they fired at them from behind the trees, killing 73 soldiers before they reached Boston
400
Three of the important leaders that attended the Continental Congress. (You need to name at least 3)
Who were George Washington, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, John Jay, Richard Henry Lee OR John Adams?
400
They met on the Old North Bridge near THIS town. Someone fired a shot and when the smoke had cleared, 8 minutemen were dead
What was Lexington, Massachusetts?
400
The Fort that was surrendered to Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys without a single shot being fired.
What was Fort Ticonderoga? (in the New York colony)
400
Colonists who fought for the freedom of America and wanted Independence were called this.
What were "Patriots"?
500
The three main goals of the Continental Congress.
What was:
1) Boycott ALL trade with Britain (coming in or going out)?
2) Support the Suffolk Resolves (asking the colonists to
take up arms and get ready to fight the British)?
3) Ask Parliament to repeal 13 Acts they had placed on the
colonies?
500
The Battle of Lexington became known as THIS, because it started the American Revolution.
What was the "Shot heard round the World?"
500
His name is forever known as being someone who became a traitor, because he sold American secrets to the British.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
500
The Patriots had a cache of weapons stockpiled here as they prepared to go to war with the British.