1. Directions: Using a scratch piece of paper, make two cards. Label one card fact and the other fib. When I put the statement on the screen decide whether it is a fact or fib. When I say go, lay down your card. Whoever plays the write card, gets a point!

2. Fact or Fib: Statement 1 The Proclamation of 1763 banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians. FACT

3. Fact or Fib: Statement 2 The Sugar act lowered the tax on molasses to stop smuggling caused by the Navigation Acts. FACT

4. Fact or Fib: Statement 3 The Stamp Act taxed all imported good (tea, glass) and included the Quartering Act. FIB The Townshend Acts did all this. The Stamp Act taxed all printed materials.

5. Fact or Fib: Statement 4 The Boston Massacre was a Boston protest that led to death of colonists by British soldiers. FACT

6. Fact or Fib: Statement 5 The Tea Act of 1773 helped protect colonial merchants by placing a tax on tea. FIB The Tea Act helped the East India Tea Company by allowing them to sell directly to colonial merchants.

7. Fact or Fib: Statement 6 The passing of the Intolerable Acts caused the Boston Tea Party. FIB Actually, the Intolerable Acts were an effect of the Boston Tea Party.

8. Fact or Fib: Statement 7 Taxation without representation,unfair searches and seizures, and quartering soldiers were all colonial grievances complained about in the Declaration of Independence. FACT

9. Fact or Fib: Statement 8 Samuel Adams was a Bostonian who warned the Patriots of the British movements. FIB This describes the actions of Paul Revere. Sam Adams organized the Sons of Liberty to protest British Actions.

10. Fact or Fib: Statement 9 FACT Patrick Henry was a powerful orator and his famous words include “Give me liberty or give me death!”

11. Fact or Fib: Statement 10 FACT The Daughters of Liberty organized boycotts of British goods.

12. Fact or Fib: Statement 11 The First Continental Congress began to govern the colonies. FIB This actually fits the 2 nd Congress. The 1 st Congress called for repeal of British acts, boycott of British goods, and the raising of militias.

13. Fact or Fib: Statement 12 FACT The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution.

14. Fact or Fib: Statement 13 The Second Continental Army picked Benedict Arnold as commander in chief of the Continental Army. FIB Actually, they picked George Washington.

15. Fact or Fib: Statement 14 The Olive Branch Petition was written by Thomas Jefferson to declare independence. FIB The petition was the colonies’ last attempt to declare loyalty to Britain and ask for cancellation of all acts.

16. Fact or Fib: Statement 15 FACT The Declaration of Independence stated that everyone had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

17. Fact or Fib: Statement 16 The Declaration had 5 parts and was officially adopted on July 4, 1776. FIB The date is correct, but it only had 4 parts. A preamble, declaration of rights, grievances, and declaration of independence.

18. Fact or Fib: Statement 17 Nathan Hale was an army general who switched to the British side during the war. FIB This describes Benedict Arnold. Nathan Hale was a patriot spy who was hung by the British. His famous last words – “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

19. Fact or Fib: Statement 18 FACT George Washington was the Commander of the Continental Army.

20. Fact or Fib: Statement 19 FACT John Paul Jones was an American Naval officer who refused to surrender. Said,” I have not yet begun to fight.”

21. Fact or Fib: Statement 20 FACT Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were in France during the war trying to get the French to support the American cause.

22. Fact or Fib: Statement 21 The Marquis de Lafayette was a Prussian military officer who helped trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge. FIB This describes Frederich von Steuben. Lafayette was a French aristocrat who served as Washinton’s aide during most of the war.

23. Fact or Fib: Statement 22 FACT Loyalist or tories were colonists who were loyal to Britain and opposed the war for Independence.

24. Fact or Fib: Statement 23 FACT At the Battle of Bunker Hill in June of 1775, the British realized that defeating Americans would be difficult.

25. Fact or Fib: Statement 24 FACT The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the war and convinced the French to support the Americans.

26. Fact or Fib: Statement 25 Valley Forge was the battle where Benedict Arnold first met up with the army after betraying the Patriots. FIB Valley Forge is where the colonists spent the winter of 1777-78 and endured many hardships. The rest I made up. ;-)

27. Fact or Fib: Statement 26 George Washington lost at the battle of Trenton when the Hessians did a surprise attack on Christmas day. FIB Well, actually Washington won because he and his troops surprised the Hessians on Christmas Day.

28. Fact or Fib: Statement 27 FACT The Battle of Yorktown marked the end of the war when Cornwallis surrendered after he was surrounded by the Continental Army and French.

29. Fact or Fib: Statement 28 The Treaty of Paris kicked Britain out of North America. FIB It recognized American independence and them the Northwest Territory. Britain was allowed to keep Canada.