Boston Tea Party
American Revolution
Fifty States
Key People
Valley Forge
100

This North American city was the site of the Boston Tea Party.

Boston

100

This 1765 British law taxed printed materials like newspapers and playing cards.

The Stamp Act

100

The only U.S. state made up entirely of islands.

Hawaii

100

He served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.

Who is George Washington

100

Valley Forge served as a winter camp for the Continental Army during this war.

American Revolutionary War

200

The Boston Tea Party took place in this year.

1773

200

The phrase “No taxation without representation” protested this issue

The lack of colonial representation in parliament

200

This state is known as “The Sunshine State.”

Florida

200

This Founding Father wrote most of the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson

200

This general was the commander of the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

George Washington

300

The Boston Tea Party was a protest against this act passed by the British government.

The Tea Act

300

The 1770 event where British soldiers fired on colonial protesters, killing five men.

What is the Boston Massacre?

300

The largest U.S. state by area.

Alaska
300

This outspoken patriot from Massachusetts helped organize the Sons of Liberty.

Samuel Adams

300

This Prussian officer trained the American troops at Valley Forge, turning them into a more effective army.

Baron von Steuben

400

The colonists disguised themselves as members of this Native American tribe when they boarded the ships.

Mohawk Indians

400

This 1773 protest saw colonists dump tea into Boston Harbor.

The Boston Tea Party

400

The U.S. state nicknamed “The Lone Star State.”

Texas

400

This Philadelphia printer, inventor, and diplomat helped secure French support for the Revolution.

Benjamin Franklin

400

Valley Forge was located in this U.S. state.

Pennsylvania

500

This future U.S. President defended the Boston Tea Party as a justified act of protest against tyranny.

John Adams

500

These laws, known to colonists as the “Intolerable Acts,” were passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party.

Coercive Acts

500

This state is home to the Grand Canyon.

Arizona

500

This African American man was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.

Crispus Attucks

500

The soldiers built these simple wooden structures to live in during the winter.

Logs or huts