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Tighter British Control
Colonial Resistance Grows
The Road to Lexington and Conord
Declaring Independence
Miscellaneous
100
These were lawyers, merchants, and crafts people.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
100
An event in the colonies where the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 crates of a substance overboard into the harber.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
100
A force of armed civilians pledged to defend their community.
What is Militia?
100
Cannons and large guns.
What is Artillery?
100
When you had to pay taxes on tea.
What is The Tea Act?
200
A member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, and called for resistance to tax.
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
A group of people in the colonies who exchanged letters on colonial affairs.
What is Committees of Corresponence?
200
One third of the militia were trained to be ready in a minute.
What is Minutemen?
200
A governing body whose delegates agreed, in May 1775, to form the Continental Army and to aprove the Declaration of Independence.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
200
A series of laws enacted by Parliament.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
A time when the king taxed sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.
What is The Sugar Act?
300
An event where the Sons of Liberty shot and killed 5 people who gave their lives for freedom.
What is The Boston Massacre?
300
British Supporters.
What is The Loyalists?
300
An officer who had played a role in the victory at Fort Ticonderoga.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
300
Were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
A law required that all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.
What is The Stamp Act?
400
A lawyer and cousin for Samuel Adams, and defended the people who died, in court but lost.
Who is John Adams?
400
Rebel supporters.
What is The Patriots?
400
The document, written in 1776, in which the colonies declared independence from Britain.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
400
Led a band of backwoods men.
Who is Ethan Allen?
500
A refusal to buy/use a product.
What is Boycott?
500
Search warrants for British soldiers.
What is The Writs of Assistance?
500
A Boston silversmith.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
A leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty. (Beer Guy)
Who is Samuel Adams?