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Son of a Virginia planter, General of the Continental Army, Founding Father
George Washington
Event where thirteen colonies came together in Philadelphia to raise money and create an army and a navy and made George Washington head of army
Later created the Declaration of Independence and ran the country until 1781
Second Continental Congress 1775
declared all printed materials must have a revenue stamp, arouse opposition especially from lawyers and merchants and was eventually repealed
What is the Stamp act (1765)
The Constitution was written in this city
What is Philadelphia?
What staple crop made Virginians settlers rich?
What is Tobacco?
He was an American Statesman, represented Virginia in the Continental Congress, United States Minister to France and 3rd President
Who is Thomas Jefferson
First Military Engagements of the American Revolution, "Shot heard round the World", persuaded many Americans to take up against the British
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
placed a light duty on glass, white lead, paper, and tea, indirect tax
What is the Townsend Acts (1767)
First English Settlement in the Americas, briefly abandoned due to losses from starvation, burned during Bacon's Rebellion
Strict religious group , briefly took over England, founded the city of Boston
What are the Puritans?
Wrote "Common Sense"
philosophical movement, rejection of traditional, social, religious, and political ideas, emphasis on rationalism
What was The Enlightenment?
gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sold to America in an effort to bring the company out of bankruptcy, company could sell tea lower than the price of smuggled tea
What is the Tea Act (1773)
Royal Charter given by the King of England was taken and hidden in this location
What is the Charter Oak?
The first representative body in the Colonies, Landowners could vote, limited to white males
What is the House of Burgesses?
He was an Aristocrat and French Military, offered to join Washington with his personal army
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette (1757-1834)
This was an armed Rebellion that occurred from 1676 to 1677, occurred after William Berkeley refused to take action against Native American raids. Showed shared interests of the colonists
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
acts close the port of Boston, sent to troops to stop trade in Boston, and ended town meetngs
What is the Intolerable Acts (1774)
It was founded by Swedish settlers, wanted to create their own tobacco plantations,
What is New Sweden?
Occurred in Colonial Massachusetts from 1February 1692 to May of 1693, 200 people accused of being witches, 30 people were found guilty
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
He was the leader of the first English colony, Famously claimed "You don't work, you don't eat", named New England, Made peace with the Powhatan tribe, then declared war
Who is John Smith?
The First attempt at a permanent English Settlement in America, Disappeared in 1590 , formed in 1585
What is the lost colony of Roanoke?
What gave French Canadians self-rule?
What is the Quebec Act?
Site of the winter encampment from 1777-78 for the Continental Army, army ravaged by disease and forced to eat their own shoes to survive
What is Valley Forge?
She thought women should be able to lead worship services, thrown out of Massachusetts for leading her own service, Founded Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Who is Anne Hutchinson?