Important People
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A patriot man who commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He later became the first President of the United States of America.
Who is George Washington?
100
President of Congress who is known as the first signer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Hancock?
100
The Act that taxed anything that was printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The causes of the American Revolution that resulted in five colonists deaths.
What is Boston Massacre?
100
These groups of people wished to remain British citizens and follow order under King George III.
What is the Loyalists?
200
A Patriot man who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The King of England. He supported British policies, such as taxing colonists, which led to the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
200
The Act that taxed tea, glass, lead, paints, and paper that the colonies imported. As a result, colonists boycotted buying the British goods and made their own instead.
What is the Townshend Acts?
200
The Act that resulted in the Boston Tea Party.
What is Tea Act?
200
These groups of people wished to gain independence and break away from control from Great Britain.
What is the Patriots?
300
Rode from Boston to Lexington to warn the Patriots that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
300
A former slave who is one of the five colonists killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
300
This group of people dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw the unwanted British tea into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty.
300
This was the Act that was passed after the Boston Tea Party. It got its name because the Acts were so unbearable and were used as a punishment to the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What is Intolerable Acts.
300
These groups of people remained neutral during the war.
What is the undecideds?
400
Was a printer, writer, publisher, inventor, and scientist.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Revolutionary leader who is known from is famous quote, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
The major reaction to the removal of gun powder from magazines by British soldiers under the order of General Thomas Cage. (Ended up being a false alarm!)
What is the Powder Alarms?
400
This act allowed the East India Tea Company of Britain to sell tea in America at a cheap price.
What is the Tea Act
400
This is the name of the trade Route from America to Europe to Africa where goods/work were traded between the continents.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
500
Former slave who became a spy for the American Army. Infiltrated British General headquarters pretending to be a runaway.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
500
The group of delegates who met in Philadelphia to come up with a plan to overcome the British control.
What is the Continental Congress?
500
This ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
The first fired shot was shot from this which side (British or Colonists?)
What is unknown?
500
One thing that every group (Loyalists, Patriots, and undecideds) experienced during the American Revolution.
What is harassment?