Colonial America Jeopardy

acts and taxes

100

What was the first direct tax on the colonies, requiring printed materials to have a special stamp?

Stamp Act

200

This act placed a tax on tea, glass, paper, and paint imported into the colonies.

Townshend Acts

300

This act allowed British troops to be housed in colonial homes.

Quartering Act

400

This act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in America.

 Tea Act

500

Name the series of laws passed to punish Boston after the Tea Party.

Intolerable Acts

Colonial Responses

100

What was the colonial response to the Stamp Act that included refusing to buy British goods?

Boycott

200

| What was the event where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor?

Boston Tea Party

300

 Which meeting of colonial delegates in 1774 responded to the Intolerable Acts?

First Continental Congress

400

These groups helped organize resistance and spread information among the colonies.

Comittees of Correspondence

500

What secret group led protests and sometimes used violence against tax collectors?

Sons of Liberty

Key People

100

He was the King of England during the American Revolution.

George III

200

He defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.

John Adams

300

He famously rode to warn that "the British are coming."

Paul Revere

400

He wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, he is on the nickel and the two dollar bill.

Thomas Jefferson

500

This person, was the first president and leader of the Continental Army

George Washington

Battles

100

| This 1770 event involved British soldiers killing five colonists during a protest.

Boston Massacre

200

The first battles of the Revolutionary War occurred in these two towns.

Lexington and Concord

300

Though technically a British victory, this 1775 battle showed the colonists could fight back.

Battle of Bunker Hill

400

This was the name of the colonial army formed in 1775.

Continental Army

500

This person was the first person to be killed at the Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

Documents & Ideas

100

This petition sent to King George III in 1775 was a final attempt at peace.

Olive Branch Petition

200

This pamphlet by Thomas Paine helped convince colonists to support independence.

Common Sense

300

Also written by Thomas Paine, this poem uses metaphor to represent the evolution of the U.S.

Liberty Tree

400

This poem documents Paul Reveres historic warning to the Colonists

Paul Reveres ride

500

This is the term for a document written during a historical period instead of about a historical period.

Primary document/Primary Source