The American Revolution
This is the additional name of the American Revolution.
What is the Glorious Revolution
The tax imposed on British china, lead, glass, and paint.
What are the Townshend Acts.
This event involved the death of five American colonists, in March 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre
This document officially ceased the American Revolutionary War, and formalized Britain's recognition of American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris
The three ships vandalized during the Boston Tea Party.
The Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver.
The number of the original British colonies in America.
What are 13.
The writings of this Founding Father were inspired by the philosophical principles of John Locke.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
This Founding Father is recognized as the "Father of the Declaration."
Who is Thomas Jefferson
This document served as the first constitution of a nascent independent United States of America.
What is the Articles of Confederation
This patriot organized the "tea party," along with 60 members of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams
The monarch of Great Britain, during the American Revolution.
King George III
The number of tea chests discarded into the Boston Harbor.
What are 342 chests
These battles mark the beginning of the American Revolution, in April 1775.
What are the battles at Lexington and Concord
This Founding Father is regarded as the "Father of the Constitution," and is the fourth president of the United States.
Who is James Madison
This signatory's signature is the largest and most recognizable on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock
The event in which costumed Mohawk Indians vandalized a British cargo ship.
Boston Tea Party
This slogan of the American Revolution was coined by this group, the Sons of Liberty.
What is "Taxation without Representation"
This is the political-philosophical idea that all government power is derived from the people.
What is popular sovereignty
These three Founding Fathers wrote The Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
This word is defined as being a fake name.
What is pseudonym
This delegation first convened, in 1775, to discuss grievances and strategy against the Crown.
What is the First Continental Congress
The Constitution of the United States was written in the year ___, ratified in the year ___, and made effective in the year ___.
What are the years 1787, 1788, and 1789
The location at which the British army was defeated by the Continental Army, in 1781.
What is Yorktown, Virginia
The three failures of America's first ineffective constitution.
What are the absence of a strong central government, the absence of congressional power to collect taxes, and the absence of congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.
This English legal scholar informed the legal principles contained in American law.
Who is William Blackstone