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True or False. The Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because it was taxation without representation.
What is true?
100
True or False. The main purpose of the Coercive or Intolerable Acts was to destroy ships that brought tea from other countries.
What is false?
100
True or False. The main author of the Declaration of Independence was George Washington.
What is false?
100
True or False. Many colonial women kept farms and shops running during the Revolutionary War.
What is true?
100
True or False. Many slaves joined the Patriots in fighting the British because they hoped to be free after the war.
What is true?
200
Someone who supported the English king
What is loyalist?
200
Someone who fought for colonies freedom.
What is Patriot?
200
Document that explained why colonists wanted to be free from British rule.
What is Declaration of Independence?
200
Where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
200
Where British forces were defeated and the war ended.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
This is why the British passed new laws after the French and Indian War.
What is to get the colonists to help pay for the war?
300
This historic event happened in a harbor and is shown in this picture.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
300
After the Boston Tea Party, King George III, and Parliament passed a series of laws. This is why the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
What is the colonists thought the laws were unfair and couldn't be accepted?
300
This was the most significant factor that led the American colonists to form the First Continental Congress in 1774.
What is colonial frustration with British Parliament?
300
This describes George Washington's role during the American Revolution.
What is Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?
400
This is why the Battle of Saratoga was considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What is it persuaded France to join the American cause?
400
This is the set of events that developed early America.
What is European exploration then colonization then the Revolutionary War?
400
The American idea that "all men are created equal" affected slaves after the war in this way.
What is slaves in the North were gradually freed?
400
This was the role of women during the Revolutionary War.
What is they sometimes helped on the battlefield?
400
"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to form a rebellion, and willnot hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation." -Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776. This is the main of idea of the previous quotation.
What is the new government should listen to the ideas of women?
500
This is how the American Revolution affected the Native Americans.
What is American settlers pushed Native Americans further west?
500
This is the result of the Americans and the British signing the Treaty of Paris.
What is the United States of America was now an independent nation?
500
This is the reason the first shot of the American Revolution was called the "Shot Heard Around the World."
What is the American Revolution set an example for other countries?
500
Use the illustration provided. This is the idea behind Benjamin Franklin's cartoon picture.
What is if the colonies join together, they will be strong against their enemies?
500
Use the Events Surrounding Passage of the Stamps Act Before the Revolutionary War chart. This fact allows us to know that the Sons of Liberty and colonists were successful.
What is the Stamp Act was repealed?