Key Vocab
Companies of civilian soldiers who said that they could fight in a minute’s notice.
Bonus 200: Group of civilians who said that they could fight in a minute’s notice.
Minutemen
Bonus 200: Militia
The French and Indian War was fought between these 2 countries:
Bonus 100: Who won?
Daily Double
France and England
Bonus 100: France
Daily Double: What was stopping the colonists from living on the land that England won? (Native Americans)
What word best describes the attitude and actions of British soldiers during colonial times?
Bonus 300: Name reasons that support the word that describes the British soldiers attitude and actions.
Bonus 250: Name 2 areas that “British” troops were hired from in the late 1760s and early 1770s.
Rude
Bonus 300: Beat up kids, stole from colonists, lived in colonists homes, took jobs from parents
Bonus 250: Rural England, Ireland, and Scotland
Colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence is won.
Bonus 150: People on the side of England during the American Revolution; they feel that taxes and rules were not enough to cause war.
Bonus 150: People who did not want to choose a side and wanted to stay in the middle were called:
Patriots
Bonus 150: Loyalists
Bonus 150: Neutral
This act put a tax on all items that had printing on them.
Bonus 200 points per answer: What were 4 things taxed through this?
Bonus 200: To protest this group encourage people to wear homemade clothes and produce their own things.
Stamp Act (1765)
Bonus 200: Newspapers, pamphlets, wills, deck of cards (ALL PAPER PRODUCTS)
Bonus 200: Daughters of Liberty
Rag doll that represents an unpopular person.
Bonus 200: What other way were unpopular people mistreated in colonial times?
Effigy
Bonus 200: Tar and Feathered
Who said the famous quote: “Give me liberty or give me death?”
Bonus 300: This person said that you cannot have “taxation without representation.”
Patrick Henry
Bonus 300: James Otis
Name of the acts that were supposed to make the colonists pay for the Boston Tea Party.
Bonus 250: What does this word actually mean?
Bonus 150: Whose idea were these acts?
Bonus 200: What was closed until the tea was paid for making it impossible to ship goods in or out?
Intolerable Acts
Bonus 250: Intolerable = Can't Stand Ya!!!
Bonus 150: King George III
Bonus 200: Boston Harbor
Which 2 men got credit for riding around yelling “The British are coming?”
Bonus 750: This person is the one who really rode the furthest 345 miles warning colonists of the British invasion, but his name did not rhyme with the poem being written so he did not go in the history books!!!
Bonus 300: Both men were members of this group run by Sam Adams:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Bonus 750: Israel Bissell
Bonus 300: Sons of Liberty
A tax on molasses that the British put on the colonists.
Bonus 100: This act prevented the colonies from trading with this country:
Bonus 200: Illegally bringing something into the country that is not supposed to be there is called:
Bonus 300: Instead juries enforcing the law, who enforced the law in the colonies according to the act?
Sugar Act
Bonus 100: France
Bonus 200: Smuggling
Bonus 300: British judges
Ideas or information used to influence someone’s opinion.
Bonus 200: An organization that used meetings, letters, and brochures to spread political ideas throughout the colonies.
Propaganda
Bonus 200: Committee of Correspondence
During the 1760s, the British needed to gain incoming money. Another word for incoming money is _______.
Bonus 250: In what way did the British gain incoming money from the colonists?
Bonus 200: Name a reason why the British needed incoming money.
Revenue
Bonus 250: Taxes
Bonus 200: To pay for the French and Indian War OR to pay for troops to enforce the Proclamation of 1763
To cancel an act or a law.
Bonus 150: To refuse to buy items from a country.
Bonus 100: What country were the colonists not allowed to trade with due to their rivalry with England?
Repeal
Bonus 150: Boycott
Bonus 100: France
Battle in which the British wanted to destroy colonial gunpowder and take away their weapons.
Bonus 250: When most everything was gone or destroyed and the British destroyed whatever was left, the British went back to this city.
Concord
Bonus 250: Boston
The __________ was written by the king because Native Americans would attack the colonists if they tried to settle western lands gained from France.
Bonus 250: The invisible line that colonists were not allowed to settle west of was:
Proclamation of 1763
Bonus 250: Appalachian Mountains
To commit crimes against your own country.
Bonus 250: To illegally bring something into the country is called ________.
Treason
Bonus 250: Smuggling
Legal documents that British soldiers used to search homes were called:
Bonus 100: Nickname for the British soldiers.
Bonus 150: Nickname for British soldiers if they had cheap dye used to color their uniforms.
Writs of Assistance
Bonus 100: “Red Coats”
Bonus 150: “Pink Coats”
What group organized the Boston Tea Party?
Bonus 150: What did the group disguise themselves as before throwing tea into Boston Harbor?
Bonus 100: Who was the leader of this group?
Bonus 250: How many chests of tea were destroyed?
Sons of Liberty
Bonus 150: Native Americans
Bonus 100: Sam Adams
Bonus 250: 342 chests of tea
This group of 56 men met in September of 1774 and agreed to boycotting all British goods and creating militias to defend the colonies.
Bonus 200: What was the only colony not represented?
First Continental Congress
Bonus 200: Georgia
This act allowed British soldiers to live in your house without your permission.
Bonus 200: An act written by the king because his friend’s company the East India Company had too much tea and could not sell it all in England. The king lowered taxes in the colonies to force the colonists to buy the friend’s tea.
Quartering Act (1765)
Bonus 200: Tea Act (1773)
A formal request.
Bonus 150: The introduction to a formal document is called the _____.
Petition
Bonus 150: Preamble
The reason that the colonists united as 1 in the late 1760s and early 1770s was:
Bonus 100: After the French and Indian War, England agreed to defend and protect the colonies in exchange for ______.
Hatred/Dislike for King George III
Bonus 100: Money
In 1770 a fight broke out in the streets of Boston between colonists and British soldiers. This event became known as the:
Bonus 100: How many gunshots were fired?
Bonus 100: How many people died?
Bonus 250: Name of the African American dockworker who was 1 of the leaders of the crowd who was shot and killed.
Bonus 300: Who drew a cartoon that represented the event?
Boston Massacre
Bonus 100: 7 gunshots fired
Bonus 100: 5 people died
Bonus 250: Crispus Attucks
Bonus 300: Paul Revere
Early American Revolution in which the colonists lose on the 3rd British attack due to a lack of gunpowder and fire only when they see the “whites of the (British soldiers) eyes.” Sends a message to England that defeating the colonists will not be easy.
Bonus 250: Document that officially says that the colonists are free from England’s control.
Daily Double
Bunker Hill
Bonus 250: Declaration of Independence
Daily Double: Whose signature was the largest on the Declaration of Independence? (John Hancock)
A British tax on colonists that applied only to imported goods.
Bonus 200: What does the word import mean?
Bonus 150: Name 3 items that were taxed.
Townshend Acts (1767)
Bonus 200: To bring something legally into the country made in another country
Bonus 150: Glass, tea, paper, and lead