People
British Acts
Events
Vocabulary
FINAL
100
Commanding officer of the Continental Army.
George Washington
100
Required colonists to provide housing to British soldiers.
Quartering Act
100
Act of protest led by Samuel Adams which led the British to close Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
100
Document stating the American colonies' separation from England.
Declaration of Independence
200
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
200
Enacted by Parliament to help pay for the debt from the French and Indian war.
Stamp Act
200
A violent outbreak in a major colonial city in 1770 which left five colonists dead.
Boston Massacre
200
What does it mean to boycott?
To refuse to buy a product or service.
300
Author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
300
A set of harsh acts created to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
300
The Declaration of Independence could have been signed two days earlier, but many of the founding fathers wanted to make changes, including removing __________ from the document.
Slavery
300
What were the colonists loyal to the British called?
Loyalists
400
Leader of the Sons of Liberty, who organized the Boston Tea Party.
Samuel Adams
400
Cut off trade between Boston and the rest of the world.
Boston Port Act
400
A major battle in the beginning of the war in which the British captured a Patriot base on a hill. Despite winning, the British suffered more deaths than the Patriots.
Battle of Bunker Hill
400
England's law-making body
Parliament
500
British military general stationed in the American colonies.
William Howe
500
A series of acts passed to increase taxes on goods imported to the colonies from England.
Townshend Acts
500
The first two battles of the Revolution fought between Patriot militias and the marching British army.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
500
New England militia capable of being ready to fight in about 60 seconds.
Minutemen
500
Who was the British king during the American revolution?
King George III
