Acts
Reactions to Acts
People
Places
This and That
100
This act decreased the price of molasses and increased the measures to collect the tax.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
The Sons of Liberty dressed up like Mohawk Indians to throw chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
He was the Commander and Chief of the Continental Arm?
Who is George Washington?
100
This city is where the first and second Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia?
100
This is the war that led to the British placing Acts on the New England Colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
200
This act put a tax on every piece of paper the colonists used including playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
The colonists agreed to not by goods made in England.
What is a boycott?
200
He was King of England during the American Revolution.
Who was King George the III?
200
This is where the Continental Army over wintered during the years of 1777 and 1778.
What is Valley Forge?
200
These men were ready to fight in a minute after being told.
Who was a minuteman?
300
This act forced the colonists to board and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
The colonists brought in goods without the British Goverment knowing about it.
What is smuggling?
300
He was a Boston lawyer who defended the British Soldiers who participated in the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
300
The Treaty of Paris was signed in this city. This treaty made the United States of America an independent nation and the Americans more land.
What is Paris, France?
300
They helped the Revolution by making goods at home instead of buying them from England.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
400
This act decreased the tax on tea but made the British East India Tea Company the only company to sell tea in the Colony.
What is the Tea Act?
400
The letter written to the King of England declaring the colonists were no longer under British Control.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
He gave a thrilling speech to a group of Virginia delegates to protest the Stamp Act which included the famous line, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who was Patrick Henry?
400
The city where the last battle of the American Revolution was foght.
What is Yorktown, Virginia.
400
They helped the Colonists fight the British after the Continental Army won the the Battles of Saratoga and Trenton.
Who was the French?
500
This act placed a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.
What is the Townshend Act?
500
The British parliament did this to each act after the Colonists voiced their concerns.
What is to repeal an act?
500
He was a Patriot hero of the Battle of Saratoga who later who later changed sides and became a British General.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
500
The city where the Shot heard around the world was fired.
What is Lexington, Massachusetts?
500
These colonists remained loyal to King George the III during the American Revolution.
Who is a loyalists?