This person wrote Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This group used violent activities to show their anger about taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This many people were killed during the Boston Massacre.
What is 5?
The Dutch built this at the tip of Manhattan Island.
What is New Amsterdam?
The French and Indian War was part of a larger conflict taking part on this many continents
What is 4?
This person famously declared “Give me liberty or give me death”.
Who is Patrick Henry?
This act required Americans to open their homes to British Soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Colonists dressed as this during the Boston Tea Party.
What are Indians?
Fort Orange became known as this.
What is Albany?
This officially ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This person led a mob to tear down the office and damage the home of the Stamp Act collector.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This showed colonists in the south that farmers would not tolerate a government for the rich.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The settlers at Plymouth agreed to form a government with this document.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This percentage of free colonial men owned enough land to vote.
What is 2/3 or 66%
This document let the King of England know the colonies were planning to begin a separate nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This person insisted that government exists for the good of the people.
Who is John Locke?
John Rolfe married this person at Jamestown.
Who is Pocahontas?
This required a tax to be paid on nearly all paper in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
Who were militia?
These were German mercenaries fighting for the British.
Who were Hessians?
This person led colonists in Virginia in learning how to cultivate tobacco.
Who is John Rolfe?
This act eliminated American land claims in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the Quebec Act?
This virtually eliminated the Pequot nation.
What is the Treaty of Hartford?
Widowed women could vote here after the American Revolution.
Where is New Jersey?
This is the practice of voluntarily freeing slaves.
What is manumission?