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Winter Trivia
100

This was a tax on sugar and molasses from anywhere other than England

Sugar Act

100

A law that states colonists had to provide food and housing to British soldiers

Quartering Act

100

What were the first two battles of the American Revolution?

Lexington & Concord

100

In an act of protest, colonists dumped a large amount of tea in to the ocean in the...

Boston Tea Party

100

This Christmas song was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song

Jingle Bells

200

This tax gave England a monopoly on tea

Tea Act

200

Parliament passed laws to punish the Bostonians for the tea destroyed. These Acts are called...

Intolerable Acts

200

This was a strategy of lining all of your soldiers up and firing a wall of bullets at the enemy

Linear Tactics

200

An argument between colonists and a British soldier escalated until British soldiers opened fire, killing five colonists in the...

Boston Massacre

200

What was the highest-grossing Christmas movie of all time?

Home Alone

300

This was a tax on paper goods in the colonies

Stamp Act

300

What was the famous phrase that colonists used to share their frustrations with the English government?

No taxation without representation!

300

What was the outcome of the battle of Yorktown?

England surrendered

300

This was a camp were the colonists spent one brutal winter training to be better soldiers.

Valley Forge

300

How many gifts in total were given in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” song?

364

400

This was a tax on common household items like paint and glass

Townshend Act

400

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Banned colonists from settling Western areas

400

Colonists lost this battle, but gained a new sense of confidence and morale after dealing a lot of damage to the English army

Bunker Hill

400

This was a letter sent to King George III to tell him that the colonies would no longer be part of England.

The Declaration of Independence

400

What percentage of Americans buy fake Christmas trees?

82%

500

What was the effect of the French & Indian War on the British government?

England was in a ton of debt

500

What did the Declaratory Act do?

Allowed England to create any laws about the colonies

500

This was when the colonists ambushed British and Hessian soldiers on Christmas

The Crossing of the Delaware

500

This section of the Declaration of Independence stated all of the colonists' complaints against King George

List of Grievances

500

How many packages does USPS deliver per day during the holidays?

28 million packages per day