Key Dates
Declaration of Independence signed
July 4, 1776
organized the Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
What allowed church members' children to become members without being saved and showed the spiritual decline of New England?
Halfway Covenant
Which act affected sugar?
Sugar Act
Where was "the shot heard round the world"?
Lexington
Great Awakening
1730s-1740s
Where did Washington spend the winter of 1777-1778?
Valley Forge
preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Jonathan Edwards
What act was boycotted and forced it to quickly become repealed?
Stamp Act
Where did the Continental Congresses meet?
Philadelphia
Boston Tea Party
1773
Where did Washington capture the Hessians?
Trenton
most powerful voice of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield
What act prohibited all trade in the colonies and removed them from the “King’s Protection”?
Prohibitory Act
What foreign mercenaries did George III hire to fight the colonists?
Hessians
French and Indian War
1754-1763
Daily Double!
There were three riders that warned that the British were coming. Name two of them.
Dawes, Prescott, Revere
missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
Which act forced the colonists to house British soldiers?
Quartering Act
What was the turning point of the war?
Saratoga
Battle of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
Who defended the colonial cause in Parliament?
Edmund Burke
Daily Double!
Four colleges were founded as a result of the Great Awakening. Name two of them.
Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Rutgers
What acts between 1650-1696 affected laws of trade?
Navigation Acts
What plan did Ben Franklin create to unify the colonies?
Albany Plan