Background
The concept of natural rights by this Enlightenment philosopher inspired many of the founding fathers to ask questions about their role in the Empire.
Who is John Locke?
Britain had to levy these because of how expensive the French and Indian War had been.
What are taxes?
Who is George Washington?
What is the Boston Massacre?
This Treaty of 1783 was the official end of the War for Independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
These were the three largest colonial powers in North America in the mid 1700s.
Who are Britain, France, and Spain?
American colonists were angry with Parliament because they were being taxed without this.
What is representation (in Parliament)?
This Black and Indigenous figure is widely considered the first casualty of the War.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Despite the Patriot loss, this Battle proved to the British that the war was not going to end any time soon.
What is Bunker Hill?
This body of the government was created in a response to the lack of Representation in Parliament prior to the War.
What is Congress?
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of this early World War.
What is the Seven Years' War?
This tax on paper goods, documents, and any official correspondences was the beginning of the economic oppression that led to the War.
What is the Stamp Act?
A famous turncoat, he switched sides and fought for the British after missing out on multiple promotions.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
Surviving a harsh winter at this famous locale allowed the Continental Army to develop into a capable force.
What is Valley Forge?
These supporters of the Crown were treated very poorly during and after the war.
Who were the Loyalists?
The Proclamation of this year restricted British colonists from settling in the Ohio River Valley west of the Appalachians.
What is 1763?
The Sugar Act was an attempt to curb this, which many colonists did to avoid paying high taxes.
What is smuggling?
This 19 year-old Frenchman became one of the most important leaders of the American Revolution.
Who is (the Marquis de) Lafayette?
This victory proved America's strength and secured key support from France.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Despite America's antipathy towards Monarchies, most founding fathers wanted this military hero to lead the nation.
Who is George Washington?
Most of the British Army was made up of these.
Who are Hessians (German mercenaries)?
These acts restricted shipping and commerce and gave Britain more power on the seas.
What are Navigation Acts?
In the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, this Founding Father provided a list of grievances justifying their desire for self-government.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was the final battle of the war, where Britain decided it was too costly to continue.
What is Yorktown?
He would become the Second President of the United States after Washington shocked the world by renouncing his position.
Who is John Adams?
This economic system involves transporting raw materials from the colony to the home country, then shipping finished goods back to the colony for sale at a profit.
What is mercantilism?
Now protected by the Third Amendment, the British passed this law to ensure their soldiers had food and shelter in America.
What is the Quartering Act?
He was instrumental in creating the financial system that United the colonies and helped jump-start the economy in the New Republic.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This French Admiral arrived just in time to blockade Chesapeake Bay and defeat a British force of nearly 5000.
America secured fishing rights to the coastal waters of this modern Canadian Province in the Treaty of Paris (1783).
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
This government body is a version of a Congress in a constitutional monarchy.
What is Parliament?
The right to bear arms became ingrained after the British marched an army to these arsenals to confiscate Patriot weaponry, and a battle ensued.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This founding father spent significant time in France working to secure French support for US independence.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
While they never officially declared an alliance with the Patriots, this former North American power fought their own war with Britain in the South, weakening the British Army to the benefit of the United States.
Who is Spain?
What is the Northwest Territory?
This legislation from the year 1215 codified that even Kings are subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Parliamentary Act declared that while the British were not going to punish the colonies right this moment, they could if they wanted to.
What is the Declaratory Act?
The "father of the US Navy", he successfully led raids on British and Canadian towns, disrupting the flow of goods.
Who is John Paul Jones?
The help of this German general at Valley Forge helped professionalize the Continental Army.
Who is Baron Von Steuben?
This early Constitution lacked provisions for taxation and for creating new states, and was replaced in 1789 with the Modern Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This group of colonies was considered a "breadbasket" during the Colonial Period because the climate and geography were suitable to wheat production.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These duties aimed to set a precedent for taxation in the colonies, but led to significant civil disobedience including the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Who is Thomas Paine?
This famous title refers to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, specifically the first bullet fired.
What is "The Shot Heard 'Round The World"?
Inspired by the American Revolution, this country revolted against colonial rule in the 1790s. It is the only time in History an enslaved people have overthrown a government.
What is Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue)?
While Spain was focused on God, Gold and Glory, France was more interested in these things in North America.
What are Furs and Fish?
He believed the costs of the French and Indian War fell on the shoulders of the colonists, whom the British spent all that money protecting.
Who is King George III?
She told the future President of the United States that unless the new nation treats women better than the old, there would likely be a second Revolution.
King George's rejection of this proposal was the last attempt by the Colonists to reconcile with the Crown.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
Despite agreeing to return their confiscated property and not persecute them, this group of colonists was not at all treated well in the New Republic and many fled to Canada.
Who were the Loyalists?