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This 1765 act required colonists to pay taxes on printed materials



Q: What is the Stamp Act?


100

The freedom of people to make their own laws. 

liberty 

100


This 1770 incident in Boston involved British soldiers firing into a crowd



What is the Boston Massacre?


100


This 1773 protest involved dumping tea into Boston Harbor



Q: What is the Boston Tea Party?


100


The year the Declaration of Independence was signed


What is 1776?

200


The British policy that prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains



Q: What is the Proclamation of 1763?


200

The act of speaking on behalf of someone else. 

Representation 

200


The first military engagement of the Revolutionary War in 1775



What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?


200


An act requiring colonists to house and feed British soldiers



Q: What is the Quartering Act?


200


This treaty officially ended the American Revolutionary War


What is the Treaty of Paris?

300


The specific phrase colonists used to describe unfair taxation without political representation



Q: What is "No taxation without representation"?


300

Complete control of a product

Monopoly 

300


This 1777 battle is considered the turning point of the war


What is the Battle of Saratoga?

300


This 1767 set of laws placed taxes on various goods like glass and tea



Q: What are the Townshend Acts?


300


The geographic boundaries the United States gained after the war


What is land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River?

400


This economic act of 1764 placed additional taxes on sugar imports



Q: What is the Sugar Act?


400

The use of warships to prevent other ships from entering 

blockade 

400

Washington famously crossed this river to

What is the Delaware River?

400


The 1774 set of punitive laws passed after the Boston Tea Party



Q: What are the Intolerable Acts?


400

The main thing gained by the U.S. after the war 

Independence 

500

  • It closed the harbor until it was cleaned up, restricted local government, and expanded the quartering of troops.

The Intolerable Acts of 1774

500

Official statements 

Declarations 

500

The final major battle where British General

What is the Battle of Yorktown?

500


The peaceful petition sent to King George III before declaring independence


What is the Olive Branch Petition?

500


The 1776 document written mainly by Thomas Jefferson explain why the 13 colonies wanted to break away from Britain.

The Declaration of Independence