Declaration of Independence
Taxes/Acts
Boston
War
Rando
100

How many Grievances are in the Declaration of Independence?

27

100

What rapper put a parody of the stamp Act on his album cover?

Eazy E

100

How many people died in the Boston Massacre?

5

100

The Shot Heard Round the world was fired in this town

Lexington, MA

100

This dude invented swim fins.

Benjamin Franklin.

200

What two future presidents were on the Declaration comittee?

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

200

This group started making homemade clothing after the Townsend Act were applied

Daughters of Liberty

200

What year was the Boston Massacre?

1770

200

What is the name of the soldiers who fought for England in the Revolutionary War

Hessians

200

This is the only state not to send a delegate to the Second Continental Convention

Georgia

300

Who was the first person to sign the declaration of independence.

John Hancock

300

This person carved a lithograph of the Boston Massacre that was largely considered propoganda.

Paul Revere

300

What group organized the Boston Tea Party?

Sons of liberty

300

Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill and Why were they considered the winner.

British won; they took the hill

300

This country gave America guns and support during the first part of the Revolutionary War

France.

400

Name 3 jobs that Thomas Jefferson had after writing the Declaration of independence.

Secretary of state, Ambassador to France, Vice President, President.

400

These acts were repealed (Except for Tea) after the Boston Massacre?

Townsend Acts

400

How many miles is it from Boston to Concord?

20 miles

400

What was the EXACT date the Washington crossed the Delaware 

December 25, 1776
400

Who said "I am not a Virginian, I am an American"

Patrick Henry

500

This person inspired much of the philosophies of the Declaration of Independence.

John Locke

500

What are the four parts of the Coercive Acts

Courts 

Port

Quarter

Meetings


500

What were the British looking for when they went to Concord?

Weapons

500

How many British ships invaded New York in 1776

130

500

Name two pamphlets written by Thomas Paine

The Crisis and Common Sense

600

Name three countries that also wrote Declarations of Independence within the next 50 years.

France, Haiti (St. Dominque), basically any country in Latin America: Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaraugua, Bolivia, Columbia, etc.

600

The Navigation Acts required colonists to do what?

Only trade with Britain.

600
How expensive was the tea that was thrown into Boston Harbor in today's money?

$1.5 million

600

This Colonel said "Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of their eyes"

William Prescott

600

Define the world "Casualty"

A soldier who is either dead, captured, or injured so badly they can no longer fight.