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100
He was the King of England during the Revolution
Who is King George III?
100
This is where the "Shot heard 'round the World" happened
What is Lexington and Concord?
100
This group of Boston rebels started it all
Who are the "Sons of Liberty"?
100
The first of the tax acts that created colonial resentment
What is the Sugar Act?
100
The dumping of tea in the harbor of this Massachusetts city
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The terrible winter of 1777 made this place deadly for Washington's troops
What is Valley Forge?
200
The treaty which ended the war
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
200
This act was designed to help the King's East India Tea Company
What is the Tea Act?
200
These groups formed to tell other colonies about the British actions against the colonies
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
300
He led the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
300
The colonies victory here ended the British threat to New England
What is Saratoga?
300
They were the two rebels the British were after when they marched to Lexington and Concord
Who is John Hancock and Sam Adams?
300
This line drawn by the king prevented the colonists from going west to the land they wanted
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
300
The Declaration of Independence contained these three important sections
What is Rights of Man, Grievances. and the Declaration?
400
He was one of the colonies best generals and its worst traitor
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
The British won a "pyrrhic" victory here; the colonists ran out of gunpowder on this Boston high ground
What is Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)?
400
The three inalienable rights stated by the Declaration of Independence
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
400
Captain Preston continued to say the colonists started this incident in which 5 colonists were shot by British soldiers
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
He refused to come out to offer his surrender; his "illness" would not allow him
Who is General Cornwallis?
500
This colonist from Pennsylvania helped convince the French King to join the war against Great Britain
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
General Cornwallis surrendered here effectively ending the war
What is Yorktown?
500
He said "Give me liberty or give me death" in response to unfair British taxation
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
These acts closed Boston Harbor and sent British soldiers home to be tried for crimes in the colonies
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
These two nations joined the colonies in fighting against Great Britain
What is France and Spain?