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Leaders of the American Revolution
Causes of the American Revolution
Things You Should Know
Famous Events
Key Concepts
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Supported Revolution and became ambassador to France
What is Benjamin Franklin
100
This act placed a tax on paper documents in the colonies, legal papers, newspaper, playing cards, etc.
What is the Stamp Act
100
I am famous for this quote " Give me liberty or give me death'
Who is Patrick Henry
100
The battle fought in 1775 that began the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord
100
The economic system where a colony provided raw materials to the mother country and served as a market for its finished goods
What is Mercantalism
200
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
200
This law forbade colonists to west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763
200
The first constitution of the United States of America
What is Articles of Confederation
200
The battle won by the United States in 1777 and was the turning point of the American Revolution
What is the battle of Saratoga
200
A time of armed rebelion or a period of very great change in history
What is Revolution
300
Wrote Common Sense supporting American indepenence from Great Britain
What is Thomas Paine
300
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers stationed in America
What is the Quartering Act
300
the document that declared the United States was an independent nation
What is Declaration of Independence
300
The last major battle of the American Revolution won by the United States in 1781
What is the Battle of Yorktown
300
The settlement by a European country of land in the Americas, Asia, or Africa
What is Colonization
400
King of England during the American Revolution
What is George III
400
This act gave the British East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes usually placed on tea.
What is the Tea Act
400
The agreement in 1620 that Pilgrims made for self-government in the New World
What is Mayflower Compact
400
In this document Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States
What is Treaty of Paris
400
The institution in society that rules on the behalf of the people, makes laws, and taxes the people
What is Government
500
Was leader of the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts against British taxation
What is Samuel Adams?
500
These acts were passed to punish the people of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts
500
The document signed by King John in 1215 which granted Englishmen basic human rights
What is Magna Carter
500
The war the British and the French were fighting over the Ohio River Valley
What is the French and Indian War
500
Being free from foreign control by another nation
What is Independence