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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

DAILY DOUBLE

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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