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The Beginning of the Revolutionary War
100

The act that stated the colonists could only purchase tea from the British East India Tea Company.

What is the Tea Act of 1773?

100

The event that started with colonists throwing snow balls at British soldiers. 

What is the Boston Massacre?

100

The leader of the Sons of Liberty.

Who was Samuel Adams?

100

The slogan that the colonists used to protest British acts.

What is "No Taxation Without Representation"?

100

The city where the eight militiamen were killed and the Revolutionary War began.

What is Lexington?

200

The act that extended old French territory to the Ohio River, allowed French laws in the courts, and allowed Catholicism to be the official religion in the old French territory.

What is the Quebec Act?

200

The event where 100 colonists dressed like "Indians" dumped chests full of tea into the Boston Harbor.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

200

The militiaman that is known for notifying the colonists that the British were on their way on the night of April 18, 1775.

Who is Paul Revere?

200

The words that Paul Revere yelled on the night of April 18, 1775. 

What is "The British are Coming"?

200

The city where colonists fired shots at British soldiers and 100 colonists and 300 British were either killed or wounded. 

What is Concord?

300

The act that taxed the colonists on tea, paper, lead, glass, and paint.

What are the Townshend Acts?

300

The body of government that was dissolved after calling for a day of fasting and prayer.

What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?

300

The organization that sent a formal letter of protest to the King of England about the Stamp Act. 

What was the Stamp Act Congress?

300

The name given to the militia that was formed to fight the British. 

What is minutemen?

300

The reasons why the British were heading to Lexington and Concord.

What is trying to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock and destroying a weapons stockpile?

400

The act that stated that Britain could tax the colonists on anything they wanted to.

What is the Declaratory Act?

400

The group of delegates that came from the colonies to determine what actions to take against the British.

What is the First Continental Congress?

400

The colony where the majority of the protests against England were taking place.

What is Massachusetts?

400

The official name of the Intolerable Acts. 

What are the Coercive Acts?

400

What the first shots fired of the Revolutionary War are referred to as. 

What is "the shot heard round the world?"

500

The acts that closed the Boston harbor until the cost of the tea is repaid, the British took control of Massachusetts, British officers could not be tried within the colonies, and the Quartering Act of 1774 were initiated.

What are the Intolerable Acts? (Coercive Acts are the real name)

500

The location where the First Continental Congress met for seven weeks to discuss what actions to take against the British.

What is Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?

500

The groups that were responsible in the colonies for writing down every bad deed the British did.

What were the Committees of Correspondence?

500

The company that had too much tea inventory and the British government told the colonists they could only buy tea from. 

What is the British East India Tea Company?

500

The day that the Revolutionary War started.

What is April 19, 1775?