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IMPORTANT READS
Grab Bag
100
This act required these being put on everything paper related. First Direct tax on the Colonies
What is the Stamp Act
100
5 people killed and many injured on a cold March evening in Boston...led to increased civil unrest in the colonies
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
The beginning of the Revolution - The Shot Heard Round the World...the first stop on Paul Revere's (and others) midnight ride
What is Lexington?
100
Document that separated the colonies from its political ties in England
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
People loyal to the king were called...
What are Loyalists
200
Act declaring colonists cannot settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763
200
Rebel Group formed by John Hancock to resist the British Policies on the colonies
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
200
An army soldiers who were often poorly trained with little experience in battle...made up a majority of the early colonial armies (minutemen)
What is a Militia?
200
Common Sense was a colonial born document stating that it was COMMON SENSE TO...
What is to be independent from England
200
What was the CHALLENGE of Valley Forge?
It was cold and food was scarce - 2,500 men died.
300
Second wave of taxes that included Lead, Glass, Paper, and Tea
What are the Townshend Acts
300
Three qualities that made people patriots
Poor, North-Eastern, Merchant, Non-English Immigrant.
300
Lasting importance of the winter spent at Valley Forge
Boosted soldier morale and improved discipline for the colonies
300
Treaty of Paris ended...
The Revolutionary War
300
The Albany Plan of Union Proposed...
The Colonists form ONE federal government
400
Famous colonial motto chanted by the colonists after the sugar act - it was centered around not having a say in government decisions
"No Taxation without Representation"
400
The king responded to the events of the Boston Massacre by doing this.
What is repealing all taxes except for the tax on tea
400
Although the Colonists had to retreat, Bunker Hill was seen as a small victory for the Continental Army because...
What is it showed the colonies they could fight against the British effectively
400
Explain the slogan: JOIN OR DIE
A phrase used at the colonies to convince them to join together as one during the French and Indian War.
400
The Final Battle of the Revolution
Battle of Yorktown
500
What were three traits that loyalists had?
Southern, Poor Farmers, Rich People, had family ties to England, immigrants from England
500
Name 3 out of the 4 "INTOLERABLE" punishments the King gave the colonists after the Boston Tea Party
1) Boston Harbor is closed 2) Elections are no longer held for the colonists 3) Trials can be held in England for Soldiers 4) Quartering and Providing for Soldiers
500
Saratoga was a turning point in the revolution because of this...
Convinced France to join the war on the side of the Colonies.
500
The influence (lasting impact) of the French and Indian War
Put England in debt forcing them to tax the colonies to pay it back.
500
FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION - Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence reflects the tensions between the King and the Colonists by...?