Declaration of Independence
How many Grievances are in the Declaration of Independence?
27
What rapper put a parody of the stamp Act on his album cover?
Eazy E
How many people died in the Boston Massacre?
5
The Shot Heard Round the world was fired in this town
Lexington, MA
This dude invented swim fins.
Benjamin Franklin.
What two future presidents were on the Declaration comittee?
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
This group started making homemade clothing after the Townsend Act were applied
Daughters of Liberty
What year was the Boston Massacre?
1770
What is the name of the soldiers who fought for England in the Revolutionary War
Hessians
This is the only state not to send a delegate to the Second Continental Convention
Georgia
Who was the first person to sign the declaration of independence.
John Hancock
This person carved a lithograph of the Boston Massacre that was largely considered propoganda.
Paul Revere
What group organized the Boston Tea Party?
Sons of liberty
Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill and Why were they considered the winner.
British won; they took the hill
This country gave America guns and support during the first part of the Revolutionary War
France.
Name 3 jobs that Thomas Jefferson had after writing the Declaration of independence.
Secretary of state, Ambassador to France, Vice President, President.
These acts were repealed (Except for Tea) after the Boston Massacre?
Townsend Acts
How many miles is it from Boston to Concord?
20 miles
What was the EXACT date the Washington crossed the Delaware
Who said "I am not a Virginian, I am an American"
Patrick Henry
This person inspired much of the philosophies of the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
What are the four parts of the Coercive Acts
Port
Quarter
Meetings
What were the British looking for when they went to Concord?
Weapons
How many British ships invaded New York in 1776
130
Name two pamphlets written by Thomas Paine
The Crisis and Common Sense
Name three countries that also wrote Declarations of Independence within the next 50 years.
France, Haiti (St. Dominque), basically any country in Latin America: Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaraugua, Bolivia, Columbia, etc.
The Navigation Acts required colonists to do what?
Only trade with Britain.
$1.5 million
This Colonel said "Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of their eyes"
William Prescott
Define the world "Casualty"
A soldier who is either dead, captured, or injured so badly they can no longer fight.