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100
Thomas Paine
Who is the author of Common Sense?
100
Coercive Acts
What were the laws put in place in response to the Boston Tea Party?
100
Intolerable Acts
What did the colonists call the Coercive Acts of 1774?
100
The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston
What was the titled of Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre?
100
The colonists minutemen met the British troops at this city first starting the military conflict.
What is Lexington?
200
Thomas Gage
Who was the General of the British Army in Massachusetts during the Battle at Lexington and Concord?
200
1768
What year did British troops arive in Boston?
200
Non-importation
What strategy did the colonists use to pressure the British government to change their approach to taxation of the colonies?
200
Common Sense
What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write advocating independence?
200
General Cornwallis surrendered at this city in Virginia in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
300
Andrew Oliver
Who was the stamp collector the colonist hung in effigy?
300
Olive Branch Petition
What petition of reconciliation from the American colonists did King George reject in 1775?
300
Committee's on Public Safety
What associations did the First Continental Congress and American colonists create to enforce boycotts of British goods?
300
"Remember the Ladies"
What did Abigail Adams advocate in letters to her husband, John Adams?
300
The American colonial victory at Saratoga.
What helped convince the French to enter the war on the colonial side?
400
Sons of Liberty
Who were the colonists that organized demonstrations in response to the Stamp Act?
400
Proclamation Act of 1763
What proclamation did the British issue to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and minimize violence with American Indians?
400
Concord
What city were the British marching towards to seize a stockpile of ammunition when they were met by minutemen at Lexington?
400
"we not only most ardently desire the former harmony between her and these Colonies may be restored, but that a concord may be established between them upon so firm a basis as to perpetuate its blessings."
What did the colonists from the second continental congress propose in the Olive Branch Petition?
400
Land-grant certificates
What did the Continental Congress use to pay soldiers since they lacked the ability to pay for the war?
500
Crispu Attucks
Who was the African American sailor killed during the Boston Massacre and became the first martyr of the American Revolution?
500
Virtual Representation
How did the British government believe the rights of colonists were represented in Parliament?
500
Bunker's Hill
Where did one of the bloodiest battle's of the American Revolution take place that resulted in the defeat of the American continental army, but not without causing the British heavy casualties?
500
"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."
What did the signers of the Declaration of Independence charge with their grievances against Britain?
500
South Carolina backcountry
Where was guerrilla warfare common between the British Army, Loyalists, and Patriots?