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100
To use ships to bring goods into a country.
What is import?
100
A British Soldier, so-called because of his red uniform.
What is a red coat?
100
The act that required colonists to pay taxes on printed papers such as newspapers, marriage licenses, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
On March 5, 1770 soldiers shot at Colonists at the Boston Customs House.
What is Boston Massacre?
100
On April 19, 1775 the British Army marched to this Massachusetts town to take colonists' weapons.
What is Lexington?
200
To throw out or cancel.
What is repeal?
200
To stop buying or using something for political reasons.
What is boycott?
200
The tax law that required colonists to pay taxes on glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.
What is Townshend Act?
200
One night in December 1773 colonists dressed as American Indians emptied 342 chest of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The name of the body of water that the colonists dumped tea into.
What is the Boston Harbor?
300
People who are loyal to a country and receive protection from it in return.
What are citizens?
300
To object or fight against something.
What is protest?
300
After the colonists protested and boycotted the Stamp Act the Parliament.
What is repealed the Stamp Act?
300

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Who is Mrs. Peppa Pig?

300
The name of the document that was written during the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
People who are sent to a meeting to speak fro a larger group of people.
Who are delegates?
400
Armies made up of ordinary people who are not paid to be soldiers.
What is a militia?
400
Laws like the Stamp Act and Townshend Act were created for Britain to get money to pay for this.
What is French and Indian War?
400
The result of the Boston Massacre...
What is 5 colonists were killed and 6 colonists were wounded?
400
The commander in chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
500
A group of people that make laws for Great Britain.
What is the Parliament?
500
People who lived in the colonies and fought against British rule.
What are Patriots?
500
The Law that closed the Boston Harbor and required colonists to provide shelter to British soldiers.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
The meeting of delegates from colonies where the colonists wrote the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
What is First Continental Congress?
500
The author of Common Sense, a pamphlet that inspired colonists to declare independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?