American Revolution - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. This was the elected assembly in London that passed laws for Britain and the colonies. The colonies didn't have any representatives in Parliament.
   Parliament
2. The first time Parliament taxed colonists directly. This was a tax on printed items.
   Stamp Act
3. A Patriot group founded by Samuel Adams.
   Sons of Liberty
4. This site became a powerful symbol for the Patriot cause in Boston. British soldiers and loyalists destroyed it as they fled Boston in 1776.
   Liberty Tree
5. Thomas Jefferson wrote this famous document that is celebrated on July 4, 1776.
   Declaration of Independence
6. Patriot women organized these events to produce their own homespun, or locally made fabric. This helped with the boycott.
   Spinning Bee
7. Patriots pressured colonists to stop buying British goods as a way to protest the Stamp and Townshend Acts.
   Boycott
8. A 1767 tax on British imports like tea, lead, glass, and paint.
   Townshend Acts
9. Patriots boarded a British ship and destroyed $4 million worth of tea.
   Boston Tea Party
10. 20% of colonists; remained loyal to the crown.
    Loyalist
11. The Continental Congress appointed him as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
    George Washington
12. This is the best selling publication in American history. Thomas Paine's pamphlet convinced many that independence was the only sensible way forward.
    Common Sense
13. Fearing further settlement on their land, an alliance of Indians destroyed or captured 7 British forts to show.
    Pontiac's Rebellion
14. In an effort to keep the peace between Indians and colonists, King George III prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mtns.
    Proclamation of 1763
15. Nobody knows who was responsible, but this began the Revolutionary War in 1775.
    "Shot heard round the World"
16. This event is the reason that Britain was in debt and tightened control over the colonies.
    French & Indian War
17. This law required colonial officials to provide lodging for British soldiers.
    Quartering Act
18. In response to the coercive acts, reps from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to coordinate a response.
    First Continental Congress
19. This member of the Sons of Liberty created the famous broadside portraying the British as killers in the Boston Massacre.
    Paul Revere
20. Parliament punished Boston for the "tea party," by closing Boston Harbor and putting MA under direct rule.
    Coercive Acts
21. After repealing the Stamp Act, Parliament declared that they had the power to pass laws for the colonies in "all cases whatsoever."
    Declaratory Act
22. This Patriot put his own feelings aside to defend the rights of British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre.
    John Adams
23. 45% of colonists; rejected the authority of Parliament to tax them.
    Patriot
24. The House of Burgesses in Virginia was the earliest example of this in the English colonies.
    Self-government