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Vocabulary
Main Causes
Important People
Numbers
Quotes
100
a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
100
a law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
100
group of Patriot men who organized the Boston Tea Party
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
this many man were killed in the Boston Massacre
What is 5?
100
popular protest cry of colonists who believed it was unfair to be taxed when they had no part in Parliament
What is "no taxation without representation"
200
a colonist who opposed British rule
What is a Patriot?
200
a law that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonists
What is the Tea Act?
200
famous for telling his men, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who is Colonel Prescott?
200
amount of colonies present at the First Continental Congress
What is 12? *remember Georgia didn't make it!
200
Famous quote by Colonel Prescott to his men so not to waste ammunition.
What is "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
300
a volunteer army
What is a militia?
300
a fight that erupted between colonists and British soldiers, where five unarmed colonists were killed
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
well known "express rider" that warned colonists the British were coming
Who is Paul Revere?
300
year of "the shot heard 'round the world!"
What is 1775?
300
"I will raise one thousand men...and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston."
Who is General George Washington
400
new laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
when Son's of Liberty dressed as Mohawks dumped tea in the harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
Ruler of Great Britain who taxed the colonists
Who is King George III?
400
how many minutes it takes for a this super quick militia man to get ready for battle
What is 1?
400
Benjamin Franklin's cartoon of a cut-up serpent carried this message...
What is "join or die!"
500
an important revolutionary battle that actually took place on Breed's Hill
What is Battle of Bunker Hill?
500
the British taxed the colonists in order to pay off debt from this war
What is the French and Indian War?
500
an African American that was killed in the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
500
The year of the Boston Tea party
What is 1773?
500
Patrick Henry's famous quote about how important his freedoms were
What is "Give me liberty, or give me death!"