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Important vocabulary
Important people
Important events
Important Vocabulary II
Mystery
100
A land ruled by a distinct country.
What is a colony?
100
The first person and general of the Continental Army.
What is George Washington?
100
A tax on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets and other legal documents.
What is a stamp act?
100
A huge farm, slaves were used to complete work in the past.
What is a plantation?
100
Stories told aloud by a group of people before the written word.
What is oral history?
200
A record of an event made by a person who saw or took part in it.
What is a primary source?
200
A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.
What is a pilgrim?
200
A tax on sugar.
What is the Sugar Act?
200
A colonist who was against British rule.
What is a Patriot?
200
An event where six colonists were shot by British soldiers and angered the colonies.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
A record of an event written by someone who was not there.
What is a secondary source?
300
This president is largely responsible for writing the Declaration of Independence.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The law that allows soldiers to stay at any colonists' home.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
A person who supported the British government during the American Revolution.
What is a Loyalist?
300
An event when colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped tea over a dock in response to British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
Something found in nature that a person can use.
What is a natural resource?
400
The leader of Sons of Liberty.
What is Samuel Adams?
400
The first battle of the American Revolution, where the shot was heard around the world.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
The lawmaking body of the British government.
What is a Parliament?
400
A set of taxes created after the Boston Tea Party that angered the colonies.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
A wanderer who has no settled home.
What is a nomad?
500
The author of Common Sense, a text about the American Revolution.
What is Thomas Paine?
500
A cold winter where many soldiers in the Continental Army was killed.
What is Winter at Valley Forge?
500
The act of working against one's own government.
What is treason?
500
Created after the French and Indian War to prevent colonists for moving west and claiming more land.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?