Declaration
The month Independence Day is celebrated.
July
Main reason British excessively taxed the colonies.
What is to pay for the British debt from the French and Indian War
What term best describes the Americans who sided with the King and Parliament during the American Revolution?
What is Loyalists?
Person who wrote Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
Colonies exist for the benefit of their mother country and produce raw materials
What is mercantilism?
Future President that wrote much of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was major complaint of the colonists about decisions and laws being made in England. That they were not what?
Representatives in Parliament
Famous for large signature on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
Richard Henry Lee
A basic idea stated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence about the people in a country is...
What is the power to govern a nation comes with the consent of the people.
" All men are created ____________"
What is Equal
What altercation happened on the streets of Boston that left five colonist dead.
What is The Boston Massacre?
The local men who became ready at a moment's notice?
What is a minuteman?
Name all 5 men that were on the Dec of Independence Committee
Who is the cousin of a person in the 2nd Continental Congress who is obnoxious and disliked?
"the right to life, __________________, and the pursuit of happiness."
What is liberty?
What term best describes a colonist who supports American Independence?
What is a Patriot?
What governing body attempted to function as a central goverment for the thirteen states?
What is the Continental Congress
A list of ways that the King of England had denied Americans rights can be find where?
Where is the Declaration of Independence?
A native of Massachusetts and a member of the Committee of 5, and was also a future president.
Who is John Adams
City where the declaration of Independence was signed.
What is Philadelphia?
Opposition to what was a major cause of the American Revolution
What is British Taxation.
Ruler of England form 1760 to 1820.
Who is King George
The Declaration of Independence was written in what year?
What is 1776
The one colony that chose not to vote in the final voting by the Continental Congress to approve the Declaration.
What is New York.