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100

This was a British tax on sugar created to raise money to pay for the expenses of the French and Indian War.

What is the Sugar Act?
100

During this event, people dressed as Native Americans, boarded ships, and threw the taxed tea into the Boston Harbor.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

100

A form of protest in which people refuse to buy goods or services to force political change.

What is a boycott?

100

Which came first:  The end of the French and Indian war or the Stamp Act?

What is the end of the French and Indian war?

100

The leader of Great Britain at the time of causes of the  American Revolution.

Who is King George the III?

200

The Act that forced colonists to allow British soldiers to stay in their homes

What is the Quartering Act?

200

A deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston.

What is the Boston Massacre?

200

Information used to promote a particular political cause or point of view.

What is propaganda? 

200

Which came first:  The Boston Massacre or the Boston Tea Party.

What is the Boston Massacre?

200

Person who fought in the French and Indian War, and then went on to be president. 

Who is George Washington?

300

A series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.

What are the Townshend Acts?

300

Disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.

What is the end of the French and Indian war?

300

Colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown and opposed independence.

Who are loyalists?

300

Which came second:  The Tea Act or the Stamp Act.

What is the Tea Act?

300

Redcoats

Who are British soldiers?

400

An imposed direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on  paper from London

What is the Stamp Act?

400

Delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies met to coordinate resistance against British policies, marking a significant step toward unity and independence.

What is the first Continental Congress?

400

Colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and supported independence.

Who are Patriots?

400

Which came second:   The Boston Tea Party or the Intolerable Acts?  

What are the Intolerable Acts?  (British punishment for the Tea Party)

400

A well-organized Patriot paramilitary political organization shrouded in secrecy, that was established to undermine British rule in colonial America

Who are the Sons of Liberty?

500

A series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

What are the Intolerable Acts?

500

These were the first military engagements of the Revolution, often referred to as "the shot heard 'round the world," which marked the start of armed conflict between the colonies and Britain.

What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

500

The use of naval forces to isolate a particular area, often to prevent goods and people from entering or leaving. The British used these to try to cut off supplies to American ports.

What are blockades?

500

Which came first:  The First Continental Congress or the Intolerable Acts?

What are the Intolerable Acts?  (the First Continental Congress met in response to the Intolerable Acts)

500

A key leader and patriot during the American Revolution. He was one of the Founding Fathers and played a significant role in organizing resistance against British rule. As a member of the Sons of Liberty, he helped organize protests such as the Boston Tea Party in 1773, a pivotal event leading to the Revolution.

Who is Samuel Adams?