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Key Figures
Battles
It is written
This and...
That
100
Gave wise advice to John Adams in Philadelphia
Ben Franklin
100
Where the "shot heard round the world" was fired.
Lexington
100
Crucial, well read, pamphlet that stated "Tis time to part."
Common Sense
100
British political group who were "champions of individual rights"
The Whigs
100
The date of the signing of the Treaty of Paris
1763
200
Founder of the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
200
When the British were forced to leave Boston
Evacuation Day
200
This was put on every offical piece of writing
The Stamp Act
200
The two riders who set on horse back to spread the alarm to "Every Middlesex home and farm"
Revere and Dawes
200
What was one effect on the British after the extreme bloodshed at Bunker Hill
Made the British more cautious and started a standing army
300
John Hancock
Wrote his name REAL BIG on the Declaration of Independence
300
One of the Frontier ruffians
Paxton Boys, Regulators, Green Mountain Boys
300
A "Letter of a Pennsylyvania Farmer" that offered ideas to prevent "turbulence and tumult."
Dickinson's Letters
300
Colonists who didn't want to go back to Britain, but were loyal to the Crown.
Loyalists
300
He brought a plan to the colonies that "cleaned up" NY, added the Revenue Act, and set up a Board of Customs Comissioners
Charles Townshend
400
Said to have been the first killed at the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
400
The battle that was a loss for the colonists but punished the British severly
Battle of Bunker Hill
400
Brtish Enlightenment thinker who inspired the American with his (Two Treatise on Government)
John Locke
400
Mercenaries hired to fight against the Patriots
Hessians
400
One oddly named territory that was proposed for the Ohio country after the French and Indian war
Transylvania and Vandalia
500
Enacted rour measures including the Quartering Acts and closing the ports
Lord North
500
The Native American leader who, with his men, wiped out many British forts
Pontiac
500
Three of the contributors to the Declaration of Independence
T. Jefferson, Ben Franklin, J. Adams, R. Livingstone, or R. Sherman
500
After this event some officials would get their pay through the colonists revenues.
The Gaspee Affair
500
The idea of self rule
Salutary neglect