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Important Events
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What Act?
Important People
100
British soldiers fire their weapons into a crowd of colonist citizens.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
France and Britain both claimed the same lands in North America.
What was one major cause of the French and Indian War?
100
The colonists refused to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
100
British usded this act to tax paper products in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
He was the commander in chief of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
200
This document stated that the 13 colonies were independent and declared war against Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
Britain passed new tax laws for the colonies.
What is an effect of the French and Indian War?
200
Walls made of mud.
What are earthworks?
200
The colonists did this to protest British imperial polocies
What is boycotted British Goods?
200
He was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Congress voted to accept this document on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The British realized that fighting the colonists would not be easy after this battle.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
Leader of all military forces.
What is the commander and chief?
300
This petition asked King George III for peace between the colonies and Great Britain.
What is the Olive Branch Petition
300
He organized the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston and was thought by many people to have planned the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
The battles that are refereed to as "The Shot heard Round the World" marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is battles of Lexington and Concord?
400
This battle further angered British leaders making King Henry III promise to use stronger methods to crush the colonial rebellion.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
Quickly formed militia units.
What are Minutemen?
400
This document said that only Native Americans could live on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
He was the head of the committee for the Articles of Confederation.
Who is John Dickinson?
500
This event happened to respond to British policies and actions, such as the Coercive Acts, sending a petition to the king, stating colonist rights.
What is the First Continental Congress of 1774?
500
This document effected the states by holding them together as a nation during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
A voice in one's government.
What is representation?
500
This is the first plan of Government for the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
He called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain.
Who is Richard Henry Lee?