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Causes
Tax Acts
Declaration Of Independence
The War
Hodgepodge
100
Taxation without......
Representation
100
Paper, legal documents, pamphlets, letters, and anything else you had to put a ...on it .
Stamp Act
100
Philadelphia
Where the Declaration was signed.
100
The colonists had this advantage because it was on their "home" soil!
Home-field advantage
100
The British are coming, the British are...
Coming!
200
Colonists refused to buy British goods or ...
Boycott
200
This tastes good but when it was taxed it didn't :{
Sugar Act
200
"All men are created..."
Equal
200
He was put in charge of the Continental armies
George Washington
200
Two if by land, one if by
Sea
300
Colonists were killed in Boston by British soldiers who heard someone say "FIRE!"
Boston Massacre
300
Tea, glass, and other special products were taxed.
Townshend Acts
300
Jefferson said we get our rights from...
God
300
Washington surprised the German troops at this battle in New Jersey.
Trenton and Princeton
300
He was African American, a former slave, and was killed in March 1770
Crispus Attucks
400
They wouldn't let colonists go past the Appalachian Mountains to settle. This upset colonists.
Proclamation Line of 1763
400
This actual lowered the tax on tea but the colonist still rebelled.
Tea Act
400
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Signers to the Declaration of Independence and attending the Congress
400
Life, Liberty, and the...
Pursuit of Happiness
400
He was old but very smart and influential in the Revolution.
Benjamin Franklin
500
Colonists dressed as Indians threw crates of tea into Boston Harbor. The next morning the water was black !
Boston Tea Party
500
The Intolerable Acts closed the port of this city
Boston
500
The opening 8 words to the Declaration of Independence.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that .."
500
The turning point battle of the war which encouraged the French to help us and give us anything we needed.
Saratoga
500
Women helped in the cause for independence. One woman even wove a flag. Our nation's first.
Betsy Ross