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Troubles Near Boston
Famous Patriots
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Bad Acts
Declaration of Independence
100
This event started as a snowball fight, but 5 were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
The master of guerilla warfare was Francis Marion's nickname.
Who is the Swamp Fox?
100
She took her husband's place at the cannon and earned a $40 a year pension.
Who is Molly Pitcher?
100
A tax on tea
What is the Tea Act?
100
The introductory paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the preamble?
200
He wrote the Concord Hymn to remember the war dead at Lexington and Concord.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
He organized the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
This reACTion of the British kept supplies from Boston, forced quartering even during peacetime, closed Boston harbor, and stopped town meetings.
What are the Coercive Acts?
200
Tax on printed material
What is the Stamp Act?
200
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This is where Patriots dressed like Mohawks and threw over 300 chests of tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
He shouted "the Regulars are out."
Who is Paul Revere?
300
The Americans called the Coercive Acts this.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
This act was signed into parliamentary law to stop smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
300
He was the President of the Continental Congress and first signer.
Who is John Hancock?
400
Secret groups like these organized events around the country including first at Boston.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
400
He was governor of Pennsylvania, an ambassador to France, and the head of the Post Office.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
These blank search warrants allowed British to search any home at any time.
What are the Writs of Assistance?
400
This act forbade moving the frontier beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
A list of complaints against King George III in the Declaration of Independence.
What are grievances?
500
The State where the Battle of Lexington and Concord took place.
What is Massachusetts?
500
Lemuel Hayes and Peter Salem
Who are African American patriots?
500
This act forced colonists to take soldiers into their homes during war time.
What are the Quartering Acts?
500
A tax on glass, lead, and paint
What are the Townshend Acts?
500
The concluding paragraph of the Declaration which declared United States independence from Great Britain.
What is the resolution?