Seeds of Revolution
This 1735 trial of printer John Peter Zenger helped establish freedom of this in the colonies.
What is the press?
This 1765 law put a tax on paper products and legal documents, sparking widespread colonial protests.
What is the Stamp Act?
This fiery Boston patriot organized protests and helped stir up resistance to British policies.
Who is Samuel Adams?
In 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd in this New England city, killing several colonists.
What is Boston?/ Boston Massacre?
This Virginian was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In 1754, this future president gained early military experience fighting in the Ohio River Valley during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
“Taxation without representation” referred to taxes passed by this law‑making body across the ocean.
What is Parliament?
This silversmith and Sons of Liberty member is famous for his midnight ride to warn that the British were marching toward Concord
Who is Paul Revere?
In December 1773, colonists disguised as members of the Mohawk Tribe in an event that helped ignite the Revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Adopted in July 1776, this document announced that the colonies were free and independent states.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This 1700s proclamation by the king banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
To help the British East India Company sell its product cheaply, Parliament passed this 1773 law, which led to a very famous tea party.
What is the Tea Act?
This Virginia lawyer declared “Give me liberty or give me death!” during a speech supporting resistance.
Who is Patrick Henry?
These meetings of colonial representatives first gathered in Philadelphia to coordinate responses to British actions.
What is the Continental Congress?
This influential pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that monarchy was foolish and that independence was “common sense.”
What is Common Sense?
This Enlightenment thinker’s ideas about natural rights influenced colonial leaders and the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
These indirect taxes of 1767 on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea were named after the British official who proposed them.
What are the Townshend Acts?
DAILY DOUBLE
She managed indigo plantations in South Carolina and became a notable colonial agricultural innovator.
Who is Eliza Pinckney?
In April 1775, fighting between British troops and colonial militia at these two Massachusetts towns started the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The Declaration lists these against King George III to justify breaking away.
What are grievances?
This 1754 Albany meeting tried, and failed, to create a united colonial defense plan against the French. It was also an attempt to get the Iroquois on the English side.
What is the Albany Congress (or Albany Plan of Union)?
In response to a protest in Boston, Parliament passed a set of harsh laws the colonists nicknamed ___________ acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This immigrant from the Virgin Islands became a key aide to Washington and later the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Fought in June 1775 near Boston, this early battle showed that untrained colonials could stand up to British regulars, despite losing the ground.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill (or Breed's Hill)?
He was very influential and at the Second Continental Congress he just kept talking and talking to convince delegates to sign the Declaration
John Adams