Enlightenment Ideas
$100 – This movement promoted new ideas about government, rights, and freedom.
👉 What is the Enlightenment?
$100 – This group organized protests and boycotts against British rule.
👉 Who were the Sons of Liberty?
$100 – The British laws meant to punish the colonies after the Boston Tea Party.
👉 What were the Intolerable Acts?
$100 – The first meeting formed to respond to British laws.
👉 What is the First Continental Congress?
$100 – The pamphlet that inspired independence.
👉 What is Common Sense?
$200 – The belief that people are born with rights such as life, liberty, and happiness.
👉 What are natural rights?
$200 – The act that led directly to the Boston Tea Party.
👉 What was the Tea Act?
$200 – Britain closed this port until the tea was paid for.
👉 What is the port of Boston?
$200 – The purpose of the First Continental Congress.
👉 What was to send a message to Great Britain?
$200 – The author of Common Sense.
👉 Who is Thomas Paine?
$300 – The idea that government power should be limited.
👉 What is limitation of government power?
$300 – The famous protest where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor.
👉 What was the Boston Tea Party?
$300 – Meetings that were banned under the Intolerable Acts.
👉 What are town meetings?
$300 – The meeting where colonists decided to break away from Britain.
👉 What is the Second Continental Congress?
$300 – The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
👉 Who is Thomas Jefferson?
$400 – The belief that people agree to be governed in exchange for protection of their rights.
👉 What is the social contract?
$400 – The colonists’ main goal in protesting British laws.
👉 What was fair treatment in British Parliament?
$400 – Britain put this type of leader in charge of Massachusetts.
👉 What is a military governor?
$400 – The city where the Second Continental Congress met.
👉 What is Philadelphia?
$400 – The date the Declaration of Independence was signed.
👉 What is July 4, 1776?
$500 – The idea that government gets its power from the people.
👉 What is consent of the governed?
$500 – The harbor where the tea was dumped.
👉 What is Boston Harbor?
$500 – This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
👉 What is the Quartering Act?
$500 – The year the Second Continental Congress met.
👉 What is 1775?
$500 – The phrase that appears for the first time in the Declaration.
👉 What is “United States of America”?