The main writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The partisan fighter known as "Swamp Fox"
Who is Francis Marion?
100
This battle was between the Patriots, led by Colonel Moultrie, and the British Navy. The Patriots defeated the British Navy, even though their fort was not finished.
What is the Battle of Sullivan's Island?
100
This was why King George III decided to make the colonists pay taxes.
What is to pay for the French-Indian War?
(military expenses)
100
This is the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
200
The leader of the American Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
200
A person living in America who wants freedom from England
What is a Patriot?
200
These were the first two battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are the battles of Lexington and Concord?
200
This was the first tax that King George and Parliament made the colonists pay and it involved paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
These were three battles in South Carolina that resulted in victories for the Patriots.
What are the Battles of Sullivan's Island, King's Mountain, and Cowpens?
300
A person living in America who wanted to remain a part of England
What is a Loyalist or Tory?
300
He decided, along with Parliament, that the colonists should pay more taxes.
Who is King George III of England?
300
This battle was fought in October of 1780 and it involved backwoodsmen who came from other colonies to help.
What is the Battle of King's Mountain?
300
This is what some colonists in Massachusetts, called the Sons of Liberty, took part in to protest the tea tax.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
This is why the colonists were so unhappy with the taxes England wanted them to pay.
What is "taxation without representation"?
( or having to pay the taxes without a representative in Parliament to vote on the taxes)
400
He was a partisan fighter known as the "Gamecock".
Who is Thomas Sumter?
400
He was a partisan fighter known as "the Wizard Owl".
Who is Andrew Pickens?
400
This battle was fought in January of 1781 and the Patriots won by using the strategy of attacking and pulling back until the British were fooled into following them and then the Patriots surrounded them. The battle lasted less than an hour.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
400
This is what the King and Parliament passed to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
These two battles stopped the British from taking over S.C. and moving on to N.C. near the end of the war.
What are the Battles of King's Mountain and Cowpens?
500
He was the soldier at the Battle of Sullivan's Island who
saved the flag.
Who is William Jasper?
500
This group of men were elected leaders in England and made decisions about how much tax the colonists would pay.
What is Parliament?
500
The British fought the Patriots for a long time in the Siege of Charles Town, until the British finally won. This is what the British did after they won.
What is they occupied Charles Town?
500
This is what the colonists began to do with some British goods, such as tea, to show that they were protesting the taxes. They refused to buy them anymore.
What is boycott?
500
This is what happened to the Stamp Act after the colonists boycotted British goods to show how upset they were.