Revolutionary War
What was the tax on paper goods?
Stamp Act
Conflicts between the Natives and the New England settlers was over this issue.
What is land expansion?
Natural Rights in DOI. What are they?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
What was really implied by All Men are Created Equal?
It implied that all white men were created equal
The Colonists favored a relationship with this European country.
What is France?
Name the first two battles of the Revolution
Lexington and Concord
What did the colonists boycott?
British goods
The French and Indian War established this demarcation that determined which land would be for the British settlers and which land would be reserved for the Natives.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Who was chosen as president of the first Constitutional Convention?
George Washington
The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of goods, disease, and people between the New World, Europe and
Africa
What does "no taxation without representation" mean?
The phrase taxation without representation describes a when the people were required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government's policies. The term has its origin in a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers: "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
What battle ended the American Revolution?
Yorktown
The riot that broke out between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in 5 deaths was called...
The Boston Massacre
True or False the Intolerable Acts were a punishment for the Boston Tea Party
True
What was the cause of the Boston Tea Party?
The Tea Act
What is the name of the British government?
Parliament
What city was was both the first and second Continental Congress held in?
Philadelphia
What was Thomas Paine's pamphlet that rallied support for the revolution and independence?
Common Sense
A political protest in 1773, where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
The Boston Tea Party
Where was the peace treaty signed?
Paris
Name 2 restrictions that the Intolerable Acts placed on the colonists of Boston.
-closed the Boston Port until damages of the Boston Tea Party were paid
-Placed under more British control
-Colonists ordered to quarter British soldiers
What did Paine’s arguments helped persuade colonists to do?
Call for Independence.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine