Who is your Social Studies teacher?
ME!
Why was Britain in debt after the French and Indian war?
They had too much land.
Why did the British pass the Proclamation of 1763?
To stop the colonists fro moving west into American Indian Territory.
Where did the Boston Tea Party take place?
Boston Harbor
The shape of the state of Florida is an example of what kind of landform?
Peninsula
In the Revolutionary War, the American colonists were fighting against ___________ to win independence?
Great Britain
What was the effect of the Treaty of Paris?
The American colonies became independent of Great Britain
What is one reason that many American colonists wanted independence?
They did not like taxation without representation.
What colony is Boston located in?
Massachusetts
Mountains and plains are both types of ______.
Landforms
Colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain were called ________.
Patriots
One effect of the Boston Tea Party was _________.
The closing of Boston Harbor.
Paul Revere named his engraving "The Bloody Massacre" because ___________.
He was trying to convince more colonists to join the Patriots.
In the map, the letter E represents which geographic region of the United States?
Northeast
After three years, John White finally returned to the colony of Roanoke. he and his men found -
No colonists even after they searched for them.
In 1775, the Second Continental Congress asked who to lead the Continental Army?
George Washington
What was one effect of the French and Indian War?
Great Britain was left with unpaid bills and a huge debt.
One purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to ?
address the colonists' complaints against the king.
In 1781, the British surrendered at the Battle of ______.
Yorktown
The largest mountain range in the WESTERN United States is _______________.
The Rocky Mountains
Who is most supportive of Revere's name of the engraving?
Patriots
How did the colonists react to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?
They stopped buying British goods.
What important decision was made at the Second Continental Congress?
It directed Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
What document officially ended the Revolutionary War?
The Treaty of Paris
According to the Declaration of Independence, an unalienable right ---
cannot be taken away by the government