American Revolution

This Group met in Philadelphia to act as a new government, and to crate and select a leader for the Continental Army.

• 1st Continental Congress
• Colonial Congress
• 2nd Continental Congress
• Committee of Correspondence

The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought at

• Lexington and Concord
• Yorktown and Saratoga
• Boston
• Manassas

This document was approved on the 4th of July, 1776.

• Olive Branch Petition
• Mecklenburg Resolves
• Declaration of Independence
• Halifax Resolves

These four laws were meant to punish Boston, the first of which closed Boston Harbor.

• Atrocious Acts
• Retaliatory Acts
• List of Grievances
• Intolerable Acts

This protest took place when the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and threw British products into the sea.

• Boycott
• Disgruntled Colonial Tea Displacement Celebration
• Edenton Tea Party
• Boston Tea Party

This law required that colonist pay a tax on all official paper items.

• Proclamation of 1763
• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Townshend Act

This British law required colonists to give food and shelter to British soldiers.

• Quartering Act
• Intolerable Act
• Declaratory Act
• Quebec Act

This law put a tax on sugar and molasses and called for tougher punishments for smugglers.

• Townshend Act
• Stamp Act
• Tea Act
• Sugar Act

This British law cut the price of British tea for the colonists.

• Imperishable Act
• Tea Act
• Quartering Act
• East India Act

This event occurred when five unarmed colonists were shot and killed by British soldiers.

• Lexington and Concord
• Moore's Creek Bridge
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party