American Revolution #1
He was the King of England during the American Revolution. He issued this, that angered colonists.
Who is King George III? What is The Proclamation of 1763?
Document written by Thomas Jefferson in which the American colonists explain their reasons for separating from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What was the name of the ship that the Pilgrims came to the Americas on?
What is the Mayflower?
The 3 regions of the 13 English colonies.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern colonies?
This colony in the southern region was a safe haven for Catholic people.
Maryland
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
Someone who wanted to be free from British rule. Hint: New England football team.
What is a patriot?
The Patriot leader from Boston whose midnight rides warned of the British coming to Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
He was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is GEORGE WASHINGTON
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people. Crispus Attucks was one of them, and considered the first death of the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The patriots were willing to give up this to gain independence.
What is their lives?
This act put a tax on tea that the colonists had to pay taxes on barrels of tea.
What is the Tea Act?
Who wrote the newspaper Common Sense? Hint: T-Paine of the 18th century.
Who is Thomas Paine?
What group wanted to purify the Church of England?They aimed to return the church to what they considered the simpler, more authentic practices of the early Christian church, rejecting elaborate rituals, ceremonies, and hierarchical structures they associated with Catholicism.
Who won the revolutionary war?
The Colonists
True or False: The British needed the money from the colonist's taxes to pay for wars.
True.
The Commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Dressed as Native Americans, the Sons of Liberty boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor at this major event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What day was the DOI approved? What year?
What is July 4, 1776?
The capital of the United States before it became a nation, during the period of the thirteen colonies, was not a single fixed city but shifted due to the needs of the Revolutionary War and the Continental Congress. _______________ served as the primary and most prominent capital, hosting the First and Second Continental Congresses, and was the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
What is Philadelphia?
What is it called when people refuse to buy goods from a particular group or country?
A boycott.
Who were the Sons of Liberty? Hint: New England football team.
What are the patriots?
What did the British do with respect to trade (or blocking trade) that made colonist upset? This lead to the Boston Massacre.
They stopped ships from sailing in and out of the Boston Harbor.
What are the Unalienable Rights seen in the DOI?
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The French and Indian War was fought between the _______________ and ________________.
What are the French and British?
Where/what were the first battles that led to the war between Britain and the colonies? Hint: L and C.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The idea that Parliament was taxing colonists without their consent is called, what?
What is taxation without representation?
The Intolerable Acts punished Massachusetts for the _______________. Hint: The big event in Boston.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was the first meeting of the colonists concerning the Intolerable Acts. Hint: It happened in Philadelphia.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This person is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A _________ during the American Revolution was an American colonist who remained loyal to the British Crown and opposed the fight for independence from Great Britain.
What is a loyalist?