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Who organized the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston and was thought by many to have planned the Boston Tea Party?
What is Samuel Adams?
Who was the commander in chief of the Continental Army?
Who was George Washington?
Who called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain?
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
Who was the head of the committee for the Articles of Confederation?
Who was John Dickinson?
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
What did this cause: France and Britain both claimed the same lands in North America?
What is the French and Indian War?
What is a voice in one's government?
What is representation?
How did the British government help pay for the costs of the French and Indian War?
What is passed new tax laws for the colonies?
How did the Committees of Correspondence help the colonists fight British rule?
What is spread information quickly?
How did many colonists protest the taxes placed on British goods?
What is refused to buy British goods?
What was the first plan of government for the United States called?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
When did the British realize that fighting the colonists would not be easy?
What is after the Battle of Bunker Hill?
What is this an effect of: The states were held together as a nation during the Revolutionary War?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Why were the battles of Lexington and Concord important?
What is they marked the beginning of the American Revolution?
What happened on July 4, 1776, that makes it such an important date in American history?
What is congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence?
It was a British announcement that set aside lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for Native Americans. Many colonists were angry about the proclamation, and many ignored it by continuing to settle on those lands. What is it?
What is Proclamation of 1763?
What event proved to the British that the colonists would not be easy to defeat in battle, angered British leaders, and did King George III promise to use stronger methods to crush colonial rebellion?
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Why did the First Continental Congress meet in 1774, and what did they do?
What is to decide how to respond to British policies and actions, sent a petition to the king stating colonists's rights, agreed to stop most trade with Britain, and asked colonies to form militias?
In what ways did colonists protest British imperial policies?
What is they boycotted British goods, wove their own cloth, chased British tax collectors out of their towns, formed Committees of Correspondence, organized protests, sent petitions to Parliament, and formed militias?
What important idea do these words express: Governments are instituted (formed) among Men, deriving (getting) their just powers from the consent of the governed?
What is people are responsible for starting governments, and governments get their power to rule from the agreement of the people?