Name two different types of self government in the coloinies.
House of Burgessess, assemblies, Mayflower Compact, or town meetings
100
What Act placed a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, or signed legal documents?
The Stamp Act
100
The kids called the British soldiers ________ because of their red coats.
Lobsters
100
The first shot of the Revolutionary War is known as ...
The shot heard around the world.
100
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
200
The king appointed these people to rule the colonies since he could not be there himself.
Royal governers
200
This Act put taxes on tea, paper, glass, lead and paint imported from Britain.
The Townshend Act
200
To fight the hated Stamp Act some colonists formed the Sons of __________?
Liberty
200
Name the person who rode his horse to warn "the British are coming".
Paul Revere
200
Name two women that helped in the Revolutionary War.
Dicey Langston, Deborah Sampson, Mary Ludwig Hays, or Nancy Hart.
300
What is the document that is the framework of our government? We still use it today.
The Declaration of Independence
300
What do we call the event in which the colonists protested the tea tax by dumping thousands of pounds of tea into the harbor?
The Boston Tea Party
300
On March 5, 1770 Crispus Attucks and other colonists were killed by British Soldiers in Boston. What name was given to this event?
The Boston Massacre
300
The first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in what town?
Lexington
300
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
To tell King George that the United States was independent from British rule.
400
What do we call the system of our government in which the branches of government balance the power of one another?
Checks and Balances
400
When the colonists cried "Taxation without representation is tyranny" what did they mean?
It was not right for the King to tax them without giving them a chance to vote on it.
400
In order to keep ALL of the colonies united and informed about what was going on the ________________ of Correspondence was formed.
Committee
400
During the winter at ____________ ____________ supplies were low and many soldiers left or died.
Valley Forge
400
Why did John Hancock sign his name so large on the Declaration of Independence?
So the king could see it without his glasses.
500
Name the 3 branches of government.
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial
500
After the Boston Tea Party the King decided to close the harbor until the tea was paid for, town meetings were banned and colonists had to feed and house soldiers. These were called ...?
The Intolerable Acts
500
What happened during the Boston Tea Party?
A group of colonists disguised themselves as Mohawks and dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
500
In the victory at Yorktown, the last major battle of the war, Washington was able to trick the British General into surrending. Who was the British General?
General Cornwallis
500
Name the treaty that finally recognized the United States as independent from Britain.