Anger in the Colonies
This Act taxed lead, glass, paint, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act.
The Loyalists were these people.
Who were those individuals who remained loyal to Britain?
This is what the political protest was called when the Patriots dumped British Tea into the Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
William Franklin was the governor of this state.
What is New Jersey?
This state was not represented at the First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
The colonists protested as a result of the ____.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is the tune that "God Save the King" was sung to.
What is "America or My Country 'Tis of Thee"?
"God Save the Thirteen Colonies" is sung to this tune.
What is "America or My Country 'Tis of Thee"?
Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of this.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Define what a tax is?
What is money that the government collects?
This is the term when the colonists refused to use British goods, organized boycotts, and refused to import British goods.
What is to protest?
Parliament passed a new tax on the colonies to help pay for ____?
What is the cost of war?
This patriotic group in the 13 colonies burned the papers that the British were taxing.
What is the "Sons of Liberty"?
This 70 year old man was one of the members who prepared the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Put these events in order: the Constitutional Convention, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act, the Constitutional Convention, the Declaration of Independence.
This angered the colonists about the Quartering Act.
What is it gave the British soldiers the right to live in colonists' homes.
Some colonists supported the British because they knew that ____ meant an unknown future.
What is independence?
The signers of the Declaration of Independence could be arrested for ____.
What is treason?
This man was given the title "Commander in Chief" of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This was the goal of the Second Continental Congress.
What was to create an official army?
This event started the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
What is when the Minutemen attacked British soldiers.
The Loyalists were hesitant to break away from Great Britain because...
What is because it meant facing an unknown future?
In signing the Declaration of Independence, the signers pledged their ____, ____, and ____.
A. Lives
B. Fortunes
C. Sacred Honor
D. All of the above
What is lives, fortunes, sacred honor?
Name the King of England who reigned during the events leading up to the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
This was the result of the First Continental Congress.
What is a boycott of British goods, wrote letters of Complaint, and drew up a Declaration of Rights?