Acts of Parliment
What Act taxed all sweets not from British ports?
Sugar Act
Who wrote Common Sense, pleading Americans to break from England?
Thomas Paine
What town did the war for Independence begin?
Concord
What were the colonial soldiers called?
Minutemen
What act taxed mail, dice, newspapers, and playing cards?
Stamp Act
Who warned that the British were coming?
Paul Revere
Where did the first huge battle happen?
Bunker Hill
After a snowball escalated to gunfire, 5 colonists died. What was this event called?
The Boston Massacare
What three countries did the Act of Union unite?
Scotland, Wales, England
George Washington was made commander of the Continental Army when?
Second Continental Congress
What river did Washington cross on Christmas Day 1776?
Delaware
How many more British soldiers died than Colonists at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
three times more
Who came to power and repealed some taxes?
George III
Who wrote the first draft of the declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What three countries helped America fight Britan?
Netherlands, France, Spain
Who was the General for the British Army that surrendered at Yorktown?
General Cornwalis
What Act was passed as a response to the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Act
Give me Liberty or give me death was declared by this man.
Patrick Henry
What town was the sight of Cornwallis's surrender?
Yorktown
What year did the war end?
1781