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Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War 2
Revolutionary War 3
Revolutionary War 4
200
Tax on paper goods
Stamp Act
200
The law (act) stating all British laws (acts) were to be followed by the colonist
Intolerable Act
200

What regulated the use of paper money in the American colonies?

Currency Act

200
Helped plan the Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams
400
Conflict over land; Britian defeated France
French and Indian War
400

Whose diplomatic efforts helped the colonies gain independence from Great Britain?

Benjamin Franklin

400

Leader of Britain

King George III

400
Warned the British were coming
Paul Revere
600
Fight over taxation & freedom; 5 colonist killed
Boston Massacre
600

This battle marked the beginning of the American Revolution (C)

Battle of Lexington & Concord

600

What required colonists to pay a tax on goods shipped to the colonies from countries other than Britain?

The Sugar Act

600

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

800
Died at the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
800

A lawyer and future president who defended the British soldiers at the trial about the Boston Massacre

John Adams

800
Signed the Declaration of Independence/means signature
John Hancock
800

State where the first battle of the Revolutionary War started

Massachusetts

1000
Spilling of British tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
1000

Required colonists to house British Soldiers

Quartering Act

1000
Leader of the Continental Army/ 1st president
George Washington
1000

What prohibited settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflicts with Native American tribes living in the Ohio Valley and surrounding regions?

Royal Proclamation of 1763