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100

Law-making body of England below the King

Parliament

100
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The King announced this which forced colonists off the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and set the land aside for Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
city where the Continental Congress held their meetings

Philadelphia

100
The only tax that Britain would not give up on.
What is the Tea Tax?
200
A refusal to buy or use goods or services.
What is boycott?
200

British soldier's lawyer after the Boston Massacre

John Adams

200
This occurred when colonists started calling British soldiers names and throwing stones at them.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200

Area closed due to the Coercive Acts

Boston Harbor

200
The group of patriots that planned the Boston Tea Party.
Who are The Sons of Liberty?
300
To take away
What is repeal?
300

The person who signed the Declaration of Independence so large that King George III would be able to see it without his glasses. He also said people would celebrate this date for years to come.

Who is John Hancock?

300
This is when the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped over 300 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
The name of the hill that the Battle of Bunker Hill really took place.
What is Breed's Hill?
300
What colonists were so upset about since they had no vote or representation.
What are taxes?
400

The theory that the colonies exist to benefit the Mother Country

What is mercantilism

400
He was the commander in chief of the colonial army.
Who was George Washington?
400
This acts were enforced to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. They closed the Boston Harbor, forced colonists to Quarter soldiers, and did not allow the Massachusetts Legislature to meet.
What are the coercive or intolerable acts?
400

shot heard round the world 

Lexington and Concord

400
What you are accused of if you are accused of working against your own government. What the signers of the Declaration of Independence could have been accused of.
What is treason?
500

trading illegally with other countries 

smuggling

500
This man warned Sam Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming to Lexington and Concord.
Who was Paul Revere?
500
The first shots of the American Revolution. "The shot heard 'round the world."
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
500

The place that the Declaration of Independence was read out loud to the public.

What is Independence Hall?

500
These were a set of taxes put on lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea.
What are the Townsend Acts?