This passed by the British in 1763 forced Colonists to pay taxes on all legal and business papers used by the Colonist.
What was the Stamp Act?
100
American colonists who were in favor of Independence from Great Britain were called....
What are Patriots?
100
King George III closed off this water way as a means of punishing the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.
What is Boston Harbor or The Port of Boston?
100
The final draft of the Declaration of Independence was approved by the 2nd Continental Congress on this famous date.
What is July 4, 1776?
100
This was the term for Colonists who remained loyal to England during the Revolutionary War?
What are Loyalists?
200
This event involved Patriots raiding a British ship and throwing all the tea overboard...
What is The Boston Tea Party?
200
This nickname describes the British soldiers based on appearance.
What were "The Redcoats"?
200
The first battle of the American Revolution was fought on April 19, 1775 at Lexington and...
What is Concord?
200
This October 1777 battle was a major victory for the Americans. It was considered to be the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
The colonists who fought at the Battle of Lexington and Concord were called THIS because they agreed to gather at a minutes notice and become soldiers when needed to defend the colony against the British
Who were the Minutemen?
300
In 1770 a crowd of people threw stones and snowballs at a group of British soldiers. They responded by firing into the crowd, killing and wounding several colonist. This event is known as...
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
He was a delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress from Massachusetts who was strongly in favor of Independence. He was also 'obnoxious and disliked'!
Who was John Adams?
300
This ocean was sailed by those traveling back and forth between Great Britain and the Colonies.
What is The Atlantic Ocean?
300
This famous battle that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts in 1775, was actually fought on Breed's Hill.
What is the battle of Bunker Hill.
300
Edward Rutledge, a delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress from THIS colony, was the one who argued the most vehemently that the slavery clause be removed from the Declaration of Independence.
What is South Carolina?
400
In 1764, to pay war debts, Britain decided that Parliament had the right to tax the colonists. The Colonists complained that this was "Taxation without..."
What is Representation?
400
This man actually wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
In the winter of 1777-1778, after being badly defeated at the Battles of Brandywine & Germantown, Washington and his Continental Army retreated to these winter quarters in Pennsylvania?
What was Valley Forge?
400
After THIS major defeat, British General Cornwallis formally surrendered the war to the Americans on October 19, 1781
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
400
He was the King of England when the Revolutionary War was fought?
What was King George III?
500
In 1774, all the Colonies, except Georgia, sent delegates to Philadelphia for a formal meeting to discuss the colonists concerns about the British. These meeting was called "The First..."
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
He was the person famously credited with riding out into the Massachusetts countryside, on the night of April 18, 1775 to warn the colonists that 'The British Are Coming'
Who was Paul Revere?
500
Benjamin Franklin traveled to this country during the Revolutionary War to get assistance with the American war effort.
What is France?
500
This is the actual date that the Declaration of Independence was signed by members of Congress.
What is August 2, 1776
500
This person was appointed by General George Washington to command West Point, the most important Fort in America. He was declared a 'Traitor' when it was discovered that he plotted with Major Andre to turn West Point over to the British.