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100

What's the definition of a colony? What country controlled the 13 original colonies?

A country under the full or partial control of another country, typically a distant one, occupied by settlers from that country.     

Britain

100

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

BONUS QUESTION 3!

1776

100

What is an example of a document that required a stamp due to the Stamp Act?

Newspapers, books, documents, playing cards, land deeds, etc.

100

Name of colonists who sided with the British.

Tory

100

Who is the artist? What is the message?

Paul Revere, answers will vary

200

What was the name of the group of colonists that organized boycotts and other organized actions (such as the Tea Party) against the British?

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

200

How much money (in today's time) did the colonist ruin when they dumped the tea into Boston Harbor?


1 million!!!

200

1. What does it mean to quarter troops? 2. Which amendment prohibits that today?

1. House and provide food 2. Third

200

During the Boston Tea Party, colonists threw tea in what body of water?

BONUS QUESTION 1!

(The Boston Harbor)

200

Which colony is located at letter N?

New York

300

Name 2 reasons why colonists came to settle in the Americas.

Name 2 obstacles that early settlers faced.

Religious freedom, fleeing persecution, economic opportunities, etc.

Disease, bad weather, attacks, restrictive British laws

300

Put these in order: Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts 

Sugar, Stamp, Intolerable

300

What are the two most notable parts of the Intolerable Act?


The British blocked Boston Harbor and no town meetings

300

Parliament passed the ____________Act which taxed glass and paint among other things.

Townshend 

300

Which colony is located at letter B?

New Hampshire

400

1. What did the British call the Bloody Massacre?

2. Which founding father actually opposed the Boston Tea Party?

3. What did the British call the Intolerable Acts?

1. An Unhappy Disturbance

2. George Washington

3. The Coercive Act

400

Place the following in the correct order:

A. Boston Tea Party

B. Treaty of Paris

C. Battle of Lexington and Concord

B, A, C

400

1. What did the Declaratory Act do?

2. Was this passed before or after the Stamp Act?

1. Stated that the British could tax and make laws that the colonists had to follow WITHOUT any representation in Parliament 2. After

400

What was the rhyming war cry of the American colonists? What did this mean?

BONUS QUESTION 4!!!

No Taxation without Representation. Parliament cannot tax colonists without their consent.

400

Which colony is located at letter C?

Rhode Island

500

What did John Dickinson write and what did it call for?

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Consent to be Taxes 

500

What year did the Boston Massacre occur? Hint: Ends with a zero. BONUS QUESTION 5!!!

1770

500

What was one decision the colonists made at the 1st Continental Congress? And one decision made at the second?

Petition the King, Organize the Continental Army, Organize a trade ban, Appoint Washington as general

500

1. Who was the King of England during the time of the Revolution? 

2. The Proclamation of 1763 forbid colonists to settle west of what?

3. Boston was established in 1630 by a man named John ________. Hint: There's a town named after him!

King George III, Colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains, Winthrop.

500

Who is the artist? What is the message?

Benjamin Franklin, answers will vary.