Wars in Colonial America | Acts | Events | Famous people | Vocab |
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What is the war that was fought between the colonists and the British? The colonists were on a hill looking down at the British. The British charged the hill 3 times but it was a colonist victory. What is this war?
Bunker Hill
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What is the act where they put taxes on paper, glass, and led?
Intolerable Acts
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What is the event that established 4 new colonies?
Proclamation of 1763
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Who wrote a 48 page pamphlet about common sense?
Thomas Paine
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What is someone who fights or defends there country?
Patriot
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What is the first Revolutionary War? The colonists won this war.
Lexington and concord
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What is the act where they put taxes on sugar?
Sugar Act
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What is the event that each colony sent delegates to Philadelphia except for Georgia ?
First Continental Congress
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Who said the famous quote "No taxation without Representation"?
Benjamin Franklin
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What is someone who is opposed of American Independence?
Loyalist
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What is the war that proved to the French that the colonists were good enough to win the Revolution?
Saratoga
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What is the act where they put taxes on stamps and hobbies?
Stamp Act
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What is the event where colonists dumped tea off ships into the ocean?
Boston Tea Party
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Who was the leader that attacked the British on Christmas morning?
George Washington
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What is the series of religious revivals?
Great Awakening
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What is the war that was a surprise attack on Christmas morning. That made many British surrender?
Yorktown
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What is the act where colonists had to feed and house British soldiers?
Quartering Act
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What is the event where 5 colonists got killed by man slaughter of 2 colonists?
Boston Massacre
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Who said "Give me Liberty or Give me Death"?
Patrick Henry
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What is a cash crop?
A crop that is used to sell for profit.
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What is the war where the French and the Indians battled against the British?
French and Indian war
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What act happened in spring 1774?
Intolerable Acts
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What is the event with the quote of "No Taxation with out Representation."?
Townsend Acts
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Who was a 17th century philosopher who had ideas of a liberal democracy?
John Locke
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What is the English group that were Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Puritans
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