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A Nation’s Beginnings

Born on the 4th of July

Colonists who believed the Britishhad become tyrants.

A 200

A 200

Patriots

These Acts were put in place to punish the colonists for the

Boston Tea Party.

A 400

Coercive Acts

A 400

During the 1760’s American colonists rebelled against parliament for doing this.

A 600

Raising Taxes in the colonies.

A 600

Americans suffered their greatest defeat of the

Revolutionary War here.

(Towny or Tunie)

A 800

Charles Town

A 800

This piece of legislation gave land (Present day Ohio, Illinois,

Michigan, Indiana) to the British.

A 1000

Quebec Act.

A 1000

First Cash Crop of the South.

B 100

Tobacco

B 200

The first successful British Colony.

B 400

Jamestown

B 400

Governor of Massachusetts

B 600

Thomas Gage

B 600

Mercenaries Hired by the British Gov’t.

B 800

Hessians.

B 800

This armed conflict is misnamed as it is often called the French and Indian War.

B 1000

Seven Years War

B 1000

Colonists who supported the British.

C 200

Loyalists

C 200

The British Parliament needed the colonies to pay

new taxes to…

C 400

To pay off Britain’s war debt.

C 400

The intolerable acts were the _____ Acts

and

The ______ act.

C 600

Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act.

C 600

DAILY DOUBLE

C 400

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The biggest turning point of the war for the colonists, was this

battle.

C 800

Saratoga

C 800

Paying for the war was difficult for the continental

congress because….

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C 1000

They lacked the power to tax.

C 500

“I have not yet begun to fight.”

D 200

John Paul Jones

D 200

This man was nominated to head the Continental Army

after wearing his British Army uniform to Virginia

Counsel meetings.

D 400

George Washington

D 400

This man can be considered one of the most infamous

traitors of American History.

D 600

Benedict Arnold

D 600

“I only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country.”

D 800

Nathan Hale

D 400

British General who surrendered to the Americans at York Town.

D 1000

Charles Cornwallis

D 1000

Author of the New Jersey Plan.

E 200

William Patterson

E 200

Author of the Virginia Plan.

E 400

James Madison

E 400

Colonial forces received aid from these two countries.

E 600

Spain and France

E 600

This person pledged large amounts of money and

arranged for foreign loans to finance the American War

effort.

E 800

Robert Morris

E 800

George Washington crossed this river to ambush British

and German forces on Christmas of 1776.

E 1000

Delaware.

E 1000

This document gave most Government power to the

states.

F 200

Articles of Confederation

F 200

The first country to recognize the United States as a “Sovereign Nation.”

F 400

France

F 400

Only these men were allowed to vote in the election of

1779.

F 600

White Land Owners

F 600

The “Great Compromise” added this clause to appease

Southern states regarding slaves.

F 800

Three-Fifths Compromise

F 800

French Military Officer that helped Washington train soldiers at Valley Forge.

F 1000

Marquis de Lafayette

F 1000

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Figures of a Revolution

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After Colonists attacked British soldiers in this city George III

declared the colonies “Open and avowed enemies of the crown.”

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Quebec

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