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Makers of the Revolution
Important Locations
Acts and Laws
Ingredients of the Revolution
Miscellaneous facts
100
Man who began the ride to warn the Colonists that the British were coming to Concord.
Who was Paul Revere?
100
City where the famous "massacre" occurred.
What was Boston?
100
Act that required a tax on all written documents, making the Colonists furious.
What was the Stamp Act?
100
Illegal goods brought into the Colonies without being taxed.
What were smuggled goods?
100
The related men that played an important part in the fight for independence.
Who were the Adams?
200
King of England during the Revolution.
Who was George III?
200
City where the first Continental Congress met.
What was Philadelphia?
200
Acts passed to punish the Colonies for rebelling against the Stamp Act.
What were the Townshend Acts?
200
Committees organized to keep the Colonies informed of events by writing letters.
What were the Committees of Correspondence?
200
First famous sea captain of the young American Navy.
Who was John Paul Jones?
300
Patriots who dressed as Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
300
Colony in which Boston was located.
What was Massachusetts?
300
Document which prevented English colonists from moving across the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
300
Slogan or saying about taxes that influenced many Colonists to rebel against Great Britain.
What was "No taxation without representation?"
300
Seamstress of one of the early versions of our flag.
Who was Betsy Ross?
400
Slang term for a British soldier.
What was a redcoat or lobsterback?
400
City that had a "tea party".
What was Boston?
400
To have an act withdrawn or canceled.
What is repeal?
400
War that the British paid for by increasing the Colonists taxes.
What was the French and Indian War?
400
Our most famous statesman, inventor, and printer.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
500
Man who said, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Who was Patrick Henry?
500
Place where Colonial troops first fired on British troops.
What was Lexington and Concord?
500
Acts declaring that tobacco, wool, cotton, sugar, and indigo could be sold only in England.
What were the Navigation Acts?
500
General who surrendered to the combined French and American forces in Yorktown.
Who was General Cornwallis?