An army of volunteer citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency.
What is a militia?
100
A law forbidding colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains--many colonist ignored the law.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
The act that led to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
100
Sons of Liberty meet at Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
The first battles of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
A formal written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people.
What is a petition?
200
A law stating colonists must provide housing, candles, bedding, food, and beverages to soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
Placed a tax on legal documents, wills, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, & dice.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Riots on King Street that ended with 5 dead colonists. Following this, colonial propaganda led to growing resentment of the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
A colonist who supported independence from Britain.
What is a patriot?
300
Closed the port of Boston after the Boston Tea Party & only allowed one town meeting a year.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
First tax from Britain that directly affected all of the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
King of Great Britain who approved of the taxes proposed by Parliament and outraged the colonists.
Who is King George III?
300
The full date that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
When was July 4, 1776?
400
Rights that belong to all people from birth. The Declaration of Independence states that these rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
400
He created the Sons of Liberty to protest the acts.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
The most successful way the colonists protested British taxes.
What is a boycott?
400
This document was written by Thomas Paine and it convinced many people of the need for independence.
What is "Common Sense"?
400
The war that led to increased British involvement (and higher taxes) in the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
An organized group or movement that spreads a particular bias or idea.
What is propaganda?
500
The name Parliament gave to the Intolerable Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
500
The colonists motto (or battle cry) after the passage of the Stamp Act.
What is "no taxation without representation!"?
500
This man defended the British soliders involved in the Boston Massacre because he wanted justice to be insured for all citizens.