People
This person was Americans first president and the leader of the continental army.
George Washington
A source that is a first-hand or contemporary account of an event or topic.
Primary Source
This was how the first humans traveled to North America.
Land Bridge
This reason for independence was a tax on a popular beverage in the colonies.
Tea Tax
The war that caused the British to go into debt.
7 Years War
This person wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
A source that was created later by someone that did not experience firsthand or participate in the events in which the author is writing about.
Secondary Source
This was the animal that the first humans hunted into North America.
Mammoth
This reason was a tax on legal recognition of documents, newspapers and commercial documents.
Stamp act/tax
Name of the tribe that helped Plymouth Colony.
Wampanoag
This person was the first governor of Plymouth and was the first person to sign the Mayflower Compact.
John Carver
A group of colonial men who protested the unjust taxes of the British and had meetings under a tree.
Sons of Liberty
Name of the land bridge that the first Americans walked on to North America.
Beringia land bridge
This reason were taxes that were not tolerated in the colonies and ultimatly led to the Revolutionary War.
Intolerable acts
Declaration of Independence
This Person was the king of England during the Revolutionary War.
King George III
Money paid by citizens to support the government.
Tax
Why were the first Native Americans able to settle in North America?
good climates, plentiful of food, agriculture
This reason was why the colonists had no impact on taxes being placed on them
Not being able to vote in parliament.
People who protested the Catholic church
Protestants/Puritans
This Native American man helped the colonists at Plymouth not starve during the Winter.
Squanto
Colonists have no say on the Parliament passing new laws for the King’s taxes
Taxation without representation
This was the tool that humans made that could pierce the hide of a mammoth.
Clovis tools
Boston Massacre
An agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony
Mayflower Compact