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Category 1: British Taxes & Acts
Category 2: Continental Congress
Category 3: Declaration of Independence
Category 4: Turning Points & Allies
Category 5: War’s End & Peace
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1765 tax on legal documents, newspapers, and cards.
 

A: What is the Stamp Act?

100

1774 meeting that organized a boycott and petitioned the king.

A: What is the First Continental Congress?

100

Main author.

A: Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

$100: Surprise winter raid after crossing the Delaware, 1776.

  • A: What is Trenton?


100

$100 ⭐: 1781 siege where Cornwallis surrendered.

  • A: What is Yorktown?


200

1767 import duties on glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.

A: What are the Townshend Acts?

200

1775–1781 body that formed the Continental Army and chose Washington.

  • A: What is the Second Continental Congress?


200

$200: Date adopted.

  • A: What is July 4, 1776?


200

$200: 1777 victory that persuaded a key ally to join.

  • A: What is Saratoga?


200

$200: Bay the French fleet blocked at Yorktown.

  • A: What is the Chesapeake Bay?


300

1773 law helping the British East India Company sell tea cheaper.

A: What is the Tea Act?

300

$300: City where both congresses first met.

  • A: What is Philadelphia?


300

$300: Enlightenment thinker on natural rights influencing Jefferson.

  • A: Who is John Locke?


300

$300 ⭐: European nation that allied in 1778 with money, troops, and a navy.

  • A: What is France?


300

$300: Year the Treaty of Paris ended the war.

  • A: What is 1783?


400

1774 laws closing Boston’s port and limiting self-rule.

A: What are the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?

400

$400: 1775 plea to the king seeking reconciliation. Hint its a plant that sybolizes peace!

  • A: What is the Olive Branch Petition?


400

$400: Monarch named in the list of grievances.

  • A: Who is King George III?


400

$400: French aristocrat who aided Washington.

  • A: Who is Marquis de Lafayette?


400

$400: Western boundary recognized in the treaty.

  • A: What is the Mississippi River?


500

The protest slogan against taxation without a colonial voice.

A: What is “no taxation without representation”?

500

What is the name of the guns used

  • Muskets

500

$500: Name of the famous opening section asserting self-evident truths.

  • A: What is the preamble?


500

$500: Prussian officer who drilled troops at Valley Forge.

  • A: Who is Baron von Steuben?


500

Who was the famous traitor ?

  • Benedict Arnold