The first battles of the American Revolution that resulted in heavy losses for the British
What is the Battles of Lexington/Concord?
100
Paced taxes on foreign sugar and imposed stricter enforcement of the navigation acts.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
This document was signed on July 4, 1776 and declared American Independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
An event where Bostonians disguised as Indians boarded a British ship and through all the tea overboard as a sign of protest.
What is Boston Tea Party?
100
The Major General and Commander-in-chief during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
200
This battle was believed to be the turning point of the revolution?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
200
This act required colonists to provide food and living quarters for British troops.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
A pamphlet that urged Americans to declare independence, and argued it was wrong for a large continent to be ruled by a corrupt government 2000 miles away
What is Common Sense?
200
A crowd of colonists got into a scuffle with a small group British soldiers. The soldiers eventually fired into the crowd and killed five.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
He wrote a pamphlet challenging the authority of the British government.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
This is were the British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington after being trapped by the Continental Army and the French Navy.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
This act punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
300
The treaty that ended the American Revolution and made the Mississippi river the US western boundary.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
300
A convention that occurred on September 5, 1774, where delegates from twelve British North American colonies met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia in response to the passage of the Coercive/Intolerable Acts
What is first Continental Congress?
300
He alerted the Lexington militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
400
Even though the British won the battle, it was claimed to be a victory by Americans because they nearly defeated the superior British forces.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
This act allowed the search of private homes without a warrant, and introduced new taxes on tea, glass, and paper.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
A petition listing colonial complaints submitted to King George III.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Grievances?
400
A convention on May 10,1775, where delegates from the Thirteen Colonies met in Philadelphia and called for the formation of a Continental Army.
What is the second Continental Congress?
400
He believed that power should remain with the people, and that governments have an obligation to respect a person’s rights of life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
500
The battle occurred on December 26,1776 after General George Washington crossed the Delaware River.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
500
This act was issued after the Stamp Act was repealed, and stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
What is the Declaratory Act?
500
This was an attempt by Congress to avoid war with Britain by asking the king to allow the colonies to remain a part of the British Empire, but to be granted more independence?
What is The Olive Branch Petition?
500
A rebellion, led by a Native America Chief, that attacked colonial settlements in the west. This rebellion resulted in the Proclamation of 1763.
What is the Pontiac's Rebellion?
500
A secret organization that intimidated tax collectors with violence. The members of this organization participated in the Boston Tea Party.