Enlightenment Ideas
Colonial Protest
British Response
Continental Congress
Key Documents & People
100

$100 – This movement promoted new ideas about government, rights, and freedom.

👉 What is the Enlightenment?


100

$100 – This group organized protests and boycotts against British rule.

👉 Who were the Sons of Liberty?


100

$100 – The British laws meant to punish the colonies after the Boston Tea Party.

👉 What were the Intolerable Acts?


100

$100 – The first meeting formed to respond to British laws.

👉 What is the First Continental Congress?


100

$100 – The pamphlet that inspired independence.

👉 What is Common Sense?


200

$200 – The belief that people are born with rights such as life, liberty, and happiness.

👉 What are natural rights?


200

$200 – The act that led directly to the Boston Tea Party.

👉 What was the Tea Act?


200

$200 – Britain closed this port until the tea was paid for.

👉 What is the port of Boston?


200

$200 – The purpose of the First Continental Congress.

👉 What was to send a message to Great Britain?


200

$200 – The author of Common Sense.

👉 Who is Thomas Paine?


300

$300 – The idea that government power should be limited.

👉 What is limitation of government power?


300

$300 – The famous protest where tea was dumped into Boston Harbor.

👉 What was the Boston Tea Party?


300

$300 – Meetings that were banned under the Intolerable Acts.

👉 What are town meetings?


300

$300 – The meeting where colonists decided to break away from Britain.

👉 What is the Second Continental Congress?


300

$300 – The main author of the Declaration of Independence.

👉 Who is Thomas Jefferson?


400

$400 – The belief that people agree to be governed in exchange for protection of their rights.

👉 What is the social contract?


400

$400 – The colonists’ main goal in protesting British laws.

👉 What was fair treatment in British Parliament?


400

$400 – Britain put this type of leader in charge of Massachusetts.

👉 What is a military governor?


400

$400 – The city where the Second Continental Congress met.

👉 What is Philadelphia?


400

$400 – The date the Declaration of Independence was signed.

👉 What is July 4, 1776?


500

$500 – The idea that government gets its power from the people.

👉 What is consent of the governed?

500

$500 – The harbor where the tea was dumped.

👉 What is Boston Harbor?

500

$500 – This act required colonists to house British soldiers.

👉 What is the Quartering Act?

500

$500 – The year the Second Continental Congress met.

👉 What is 1775?

500

$500 – The phrase that appears for the first time in the Declaration.

👉 What is “United States of America”?

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