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Hink Pinks
100
This was a tax on printed materials such as legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards.
What is The Stamp Act?
100
He was a member of the House of Burgesses and a representative at the 1st Continental Congress. He had fought in the French and Indian War but now was willing to fight the British.
Who is George Washington?
100
When angry colonists surrounded British soldiers they panicked and killed five, unarmed people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
What protest cry told the British that the colonists, who had a history of self-governing, no longer wanted to pay for taxes the Parliament was passing. The Parliament they never voted.
What is "no taxation without representation."
100
This express rider's favorite animal to hunt in November.
What is Paul Revere deer?
200
Laws that placed a tariff--a tax on imported goods--on paper, wool, tea, and other goods that the colonies imported from Britain.
What is the Townshend Acts?
200
He was one of the first people to speak out against the Stamp Act. He also said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
The name given to militia groups formed by Patriots upon returning from the 1st Continental Congress and why they were called this.
What is the minutemen, because they could be ready to fight at a minutes notice?
200
This assembly of representatives from each colony met in Philadelphia and voted to stop all trade with Britain, decided colonies should start militias, and would meet again in a year if the dispute with Britain did not end. All of this was in an effort to end the Intolerable Acts on Boston.
What is the Continental Congress?
200
A very warm refusal to buy goods.
What is a hot boycott?
300
This act said only the East India Company could sell tea.
What is the Tea Act?
300
He organized the Sons of Liberty to lead protest against the Stamp Act.
Who is Samuel Adams?
300
This was Colonel Prescott's advice to his troops at the Battle of Bunker Hill allowing them to fire accurately and killing half the British soldiers before eventuall losing the battle.
What is "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
300
This candy could have been eaten on the boats with "Mohawks" dumped a bunch of tea in Boston's harbor.
What is Boston Tea Party Smarties?
400
This is what colonists decided to do in protest to the taxes and tariffs. Another way to describe it is refusal to buy goods.
What is a boycott?
400
One of the first victims of the American Revoluion, he was an escaped slave killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
This was where "the shot heard round the world" took place and this is the place militia had been storing weapons.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
These two things are very similar in that they both were created to help the colonists resist British control, and both were designed to help colonists take immediate action when problems arose with the British.
What is the C of C and the colonial minutemen?
400
A compain, gripe, or objection found in a bird's nest.
What is a protest nest?
500
This king and law making assembly wanted to impose taxes on the colonists to help pay for the British army that protected them.
Who is King George III and Parliament?
500
These three men rode to warn the militia of the Britain Army's plans to march from Boston to Concord.
Who is Dawes, Revere, and Prescott?
500
This is the name of the hill and the name of the colonel that defended it in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
What is Breed's Hill?
500
This was the result of British actions against the colonists. However, they thought they would show they were in control and did not expect the colonists to fight them.
What is the colonists united against them?
500
A tariff or toll placed upon Fritos or chips.
What is a snacks tax?