Bacon's Rebellion
Name of the greedy VA Governor
Who is Governor Berkeley?
What was the BIGGEST consequence for Britain winning the war?
What is Debt? (Hey let's tax the colonies now to earn back money!)
Tax placed on a fancy beverage.
What is the Tea Act?
1st causality prior to the Revolutionary War.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A person against the British, has pride in their country.
What is a Patriot?
Item Governor Berkeley wanted from the Native Americans.
What is fur?
What is the slogan Ben Franklin uses to unite the colonists?
What is "Join or Die?"
This tax was on a substance we all enjoy because it's very sweet!
What is the Sugar Act?
Why does Paul Revere title his image of the Boston Massacre as the "Bloody Massacre" instead of the Boston Massacre?
What is...to show viewers the graphic depiction of the bloodshed at the event thanks to the British soldiers, even though only 5 people died.
A supporter of the British gown and against independence.
What is a Loyalist?
List of grievances the colonists wrote to Governor Berkeley to express their unhappiness with his support of the natives, lack land to cultivate, etc.
What is the Declaration of the People of Virginia (1676)?
Area in the United States that the French and British were fighting over.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Tax on on all paper documents in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act?
How is the Boston Gazette newspaper article about the Boston Massacre biased? (3 possible answers)
1. Says the British intended to murder people.
2. Calls the colonists heroes
3. Says the soldiers attacked them and beat the colonists.
A form of public torture and humiliation used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge.
What is tarring and feathering?
What are some things people don't realize Bacon's Rebellion caused? (3 possible answers)
What is...Slavery in America, people defining black/white, power hungry upper class wanting 100% control over black individuals.
Signed by King George III stating no colonists way move west of the Appalachian Mountains, for that land would be Natives American land.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
Passed after the Boston Tea Party to punish the colonists in Boston.
What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
How is the London Gazette newspaper article about the Boston Massacre biased? (3 possible answers)
What is...
1. Says the colonists started a fight with the soldiers.
2.Troops only fired after being attacked my a mob of colonists.
3. Colonists were violent and the soldiers felt threatened.
A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives.
What is a democracy?
What was a direct outcome of Bacon's Rebellion? (5 possible answers)
What is...
1. Most participants from the rebellion were pardoned but a few of the ringleaders hanged.
2. King Charles II heard about the problems in VA- he was unhappy and sent a new governor to take charge.
3. People realized that there was a class/socio-economic problem in America.
4. Set a precedent for future Americans to obtain equality and the idea of needing to establish a democracy.
•A clear shift from a system of indentured servants (expensive and resentful) to African slave labor (cheaper and controllable) in the South.
What does the Treaty of Paris (1763) say? (4 possible answers)
What is...
1. Ends the war
2. France surrenders all land in North America.
3. Everything east of the Mississippi River now belongs to Britain.
4. Natives lose their ally and trading partner (France).
Taxed goods imported to the American colonies such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
What happened to the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
What is...six went free while two were found guilty of manslaughter?
Plantation owners were given 50 acres for every indentured servant they sponsored to come to America.
What is the Headright System?