1. Stamp Act
What does it tax?
date?

2. A tax on all written
documents
1765

3. What did the
TOWNSHEND ACTS
tax??
date?

4. PAINT
Popular items…
TEA
1767
LEAD
GLASS
PAPER

5. Which event is this?? Date? 11 people shot, 5 died after British
soldiers are
taunted (teased)
Which
event is
this??
Date?

6. BOSTON
MASSACRE
1770

7. What was the law that said British soldiers could live in colonists’ homes?

8. The Quartering Act

9. True or False about the Revolution:
Concord was the first real battle of the war.
Paul Revere never finished the “Midnight Ride.”
Sam Adams led the Sons of Liberty.

10. All True

11. Crispus Attucks
Who was he?

12. black man
killed at
the
Boston
Massacre

13. What two things
were
Sam Adams
the leader of???

14. SONS OF
LIBERTY
BOSTON
TEA
PARTY

15. refusal to buy goods such as tea called?
Don’t buy
British goods!
What is the
refusal to buy goods such as tea called?

16. BOYCOTT

17. ? ? date? ? ? What did Sam Adams, Paul Revere & other patriots do at
The Boston Harbor?
date? ? ?

18. BOSTON
TEA
PARTY
1773

19. What did the Intolerable Acts lead to?
Hint: 3 things

20. Results on Intolerable Acts
No town meetings!
Quartering Act
Boston Harbor
Closed

21. All are patriots except:
Sam Adams
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock

22. Thomas Hutchinson is royal governor of Massachusetts.– not a patriot

23. over the forces of which British leader?
The battle of Yorktown marked
end of the
war
I give up!
& was a
Colonial victory
over the forces of which British leader?

24. Lord
Cornwallis WE
WON!

25. Where were the
“opening shots”
of the
Revolution War
& the
“shot heard
around the world?”

26. LEXINGTON

27. Name the 3 advantages of the colonies that helped them win the Revolutionary War.

28. Colonists defending their own land and beliefs.
Support from France and Spain.
Strong leadership from people like George Washington

29. True or False:
Colonists won many early battles and caused the British to want to surrender quickly.
British fought using British soldiers and Hessian mercenaries.
Continental Army was successful because of leadership like George Washington.
British won more battles than colonists, but colonists won more important battles.

30. What does dissatisfaction mean?

31. Unhappiness

32. The Americans could not have won the war without the help of what nation?

33. France

34. When a country or person refuses to take side in an argument, it is called being

35. Neutral

36. What did
PHYLLIS
WHEATLEY do
during the
Revolution?

37. American independence
Former slave
who wrote
poems
supporting
American independence
POEMS

38. What was the name of treaty that ended the Revolution and officially recognized the U.S. as a nation?

39. Treaty of Paris 1783

40. What event led to the creation of colonial militias?

41. Meeting of the First Continental Congress

42. What event led to the Declaration of Independence?

43. Meeting of the Second Continental Congress

44. Put the following events in chronological order:
Meeting of First Continental Congress
Meeting of Second Continental Congress
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Passage of Coercive Acts by Parliament

45. Passage of Coercive Acts by Parliament
Meeting of First Continental Congress
Meeting of Second Continental Congress
Battles of Lexington and Concord

46. Where were the
“opening shots”
of the
Revolution War
& the
“shot heard
around the world?”

47. LEXINGTON

48. 1st real battle of war North Bridge We are going to Let’s get
chase you back
to Boston!
Let’s get
Out of here!
North Bridge

49. BATTLE OF
CONCORD

50. but it was a moral victory!
We Americans were
Defeated….
but it was a moral victory!
Oh no! They are
shooting when they
see the whites of
our eyes!!

51. BUNKER
HILL

52. Which battle was an…. American victory Turning point of war
French join the American cause

53. BATTLE OF
SARATOGA

54. Which battle marked the end of the war
I give up!
& was a
Colonial victory
over the forces of
Lord Cornwallis?

55. YORKTOWN WE
WON!

56. What European nation, along with France, gave the Patriots assistance during the Revolutionary War?

57. Spain

58. What date was the Declaration of Independence officially approved by the Second Continental Congress?

59. July 4, 1776

60. What is the explanation of this cartoon?

61. Great Britain is bigger and better armed than the Patriots and felt the Declaration of Independence was a joke.