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Who helped form the Committees of
Correspondence to share ideas and information about challenging British Laws?
A 100
Samuel Adams
A 100
The Colonist formed a secret society that used violence to frighten the tax collectors. They were known as the…
A 200
Sons of Liberty
A 200
______ were members of local militias who were ready to
respond at any moment
A 300
The minute men
A 300
The delegates agreed to place ______ in command of the newly created Continental
Army
A 400
General George Washington
A 400
This man helped negotiate the peace treaty for the Patriots
A 500
Benjamin Franklin
A 500
Parliament passed this act in 1764. It set taxes on molasses
and sugar imported by the colonist.
B 100
Sugar Act
B 100
This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, whenever they bought paper
items.
B 200
The Stamp Act
B 200
After the Boston Tea Party, this act closed Boston Harbor,
Cancelled Massachusetts’s charter, and forced colonists to house and supply British
troops.
B 300
Coercive Acts aka Intolerable Acts
B 300
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B 400
Vetoing a
B 400
The
B 500
The
B 500
This battle proved that the colonists could hold their own
against the British army.
C 100
The Battle of Saratoga
C 100
C 200
The “shot heard round the world,” refers to the fighting between the colonists and the British soldiers that broke out
at….
Lexington
C 200
During what battle did General Cornwallis surrender
to the Patriots?
C 300
Battle of Yorktown
C 300
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C 400
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Patriot forces took Hessian mercenaries by surprise in this
battle
C 400
The Battle of Trenton
C 400
General Washington and his troops were forced to retreat
following losses here.
C 500
New York
C 500
The British prime minister asked Parliament to tax the American Colonies to help
pay for…
D 100
The French and Indian War
D 100
The “Bloody Massacre perpetrated on King Street” was
also known as the….
D 200
The Boston Massacre
D 200
This important victory for the Patriot was a major turning point
in the war.
D 300
The Battle of Saratoga
D 300
The meeting of representatives from 12 of the
colonies who met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
in May 1775
D 400
The 2nd Continental Congress
D 400
This event led all colonies except Georgia to send delegates to
Philadelphia for the 1st Continental Congress
D 500
The closing of the ports in Boston
D 500
A popular method of protesting British laws was…
E 100
Boycott
E 100
Many colonists believed that Great Britain had no right to
tax them without their…
E 200
Consent
E 200
This pamphlet became popular because its message and clear
style written in common language
E 300
Common Sense
E 300
Signed in 1783, this ended the Revolutionary War
E 400
The Treaty of Paris
E 400
King George III violated the colonists’ rights, colonists have
rights, and the colonists have the right to change their government
are 3 major ideas of the…
E 500
Declaration of Independence
E 500
Patriot soldiers struggled through the winter of 1777-
1778 here
F 100
Valley Forge
F 100
The Patriots received much needed help in the war when they
allied with this country
F 200
France
F 200
The British army was ordered to destroy weapons stored here by the colonial militia
F 300
Concord, Massachusetts
F 300
F 400
What colony was the 1st to fall to the British?
F 400
Georgia
F 500
Guerilla warfare was a style of fighting that Frances Marion
favored. Where did he use this style of fighting?
F 500
The South
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This man was the author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
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