He is famous for riding through the night to alert the colonists that "the British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
100
This is the year Parliament passed the Stamp Act.
What is 1765?
100
This is one of the first British laws placing taxes on the colonists every time they bought a newspaper or pamphlet or signed a legal document.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The main port city in New England.
What is Boston?
200
This word means "freedom".
What is liberty?
200
He was a German printer who established the right to freedom of speech.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
200
This is the year the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is 1773?
200
This act had colonists pay taxes on all the tea, paper, glass, lead and paint that they imported from Britain.
What are the Townshend Acts?
200
This is where the first battle of the Revolutionary War took place.
What is Lexington?
300
One way that people in the 13 colonies expressed their opinions in newspapers and pamphlets.
What are political cartoons?
300
He joined Paul Revere on the way to Concord.
Who is William Dawes?
300
The year the American Revolutionary War began.
What is 1775?
300
This act closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea they had dumped in the harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
This is where the First Continental Congress met in 1774.
What is Philadelphia?
400
These are the best trained soldiers who had to be ready for battle at a minute's notice.
What are minuteman?
400
He is famous for the quote "Give me liberty or give me death".
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
This is the year Mrs. Cheman was born.
What is 1976?
400
This event happened as a protest to paying taxes on tea from England.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
This is where the first meeting of Virginia's assembly, the House of Burgesses, took place in 1619.
What is Jamestown?
500
To refuse to obey those in charge because of different ideas about what is right.
What is rebel?
500
He was the king of England during the Revolutionary War.
Who is King George III?
500
This is the year the Mayflower Compact was written.
What is 1620?
500
This is an event which occurred outside the Boston Customs House where Crispus Attucks stirred up a crowd to attack a troop of British soldiers, who fired on them, killing five.