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Puritan preacher during the Great Awakening.

Who is Jonathan Edwards

100

War fought between France and England over land in America

What is the French and Indian War

100

The Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor. 

What is the Boston Tea Party?

100

The spiritual revival that began in New England and spread throughout the colonies.

What is the Great Awakening?

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He was a Boston silversmith and Son of Liberty who rode to warn patriots of the British troops movement. 
Who is Paul Revere?
200

English hymn writer whose hymns were popular in the colonies during the Great Awakening.

Who is Isaac Watts?

200

War in which the American colonists fought for their freedom from England.

What is the War for Independence or What is the Revolutionary War?

200

This event caused the death of 5 citizens of Boston at the hands of British soldiers. 

What is the Boston Massacre?

200

An agreement or understanding between 2 or more countries.

What is a treaty?

200

He was an important member of the Second Continental Congress and was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.

Who is John Hancock?

300

Commander of the British troops during the French and Indian War.

Who is General Edward Braddock?

300

Important battle outside Boston where colonists showed the British their bravery in battle.

What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?

300

This was a meeting in which the colonial representatives wrote down a declaration of rights that American colonists should have.

What is the First Continental Congress?

300

This was a tax that only the colonists had to pay on documents.

What is the Stamp Act?

300

He was the captain in the Continental army who served as a spy for America. 

Who is Nathan Hale?

400

England's King that passed laws that only colonists had to obey. 

Who is King George III

400

This fort was captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in northern New York. 

What is Fort Ticonderoga?

400

This was the day that the Declaration of Independence was signed.

What is July 4, 1776?

400

These were several decisions made by Britain, including the blockade of Boston Harbor, to punish the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party. 

What are the Intolerable Acts?

400

He led a group of men from Virginia down the Ohio River and captured three British forts.

Who is George Rogers Clark?


500

Important member of the Second Continental Congress and helped write the Declaration of Independence.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500

Important battle in which the British were stopped from capturing all of New York - the turning point of the war. 

What is the Battle of Saratoga?

500

This document was signed in 1783 in which England gave up the thirteen colonies and all the land from Florida to Canada. 

What is the Treaty of Paris?

500

Patriots who were trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice. 

Who are the Minutemen?

500

He was the leader of the British army at the end of the war. 

Who is General Lord Charles Cornwallis?