Representative Govt.
The first self-governing document in the 13 Colonies (1620)
What is The Mayflower Compact?
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The colonists rally cry for the Revolution
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
Battle known as the 'Shot heard round the world'
What is Lexington & Concord?
Colonists who supported Independence
What are Patriots?
The first Representative assembly in the colonies, created in Virginia in 1619
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Charles de Montesquieu is responsible for...
What is Separation of Powers? the 3 branches of government?
The Intolerable Acts were meant to punish the colonists because of what event?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The battle that convinced the French to support the colonists in the war, known as the turning point
The Battle of Saratoga
Colonists who did NOT support Independence
What are Loyalists?
The English document signed in 1215 that limited the King's power and influenced the growth of representative government in the colonies
What is the Magna Carta?
Responsible for Unalienable Rights (OG Version), what were they?
Who is John Locke; life, liberty and property?
Why did the King pass the Stamp, Sugar, Townshend and Tea Acts against the colonists?
What is to pay back the debt the colonists gained while fighting during the French and Indian War?
The ending battle of the Revolution and the code to remember it
What is the Battle of Yorktown? Y is at the end of the alphabet, Yorktown is the end of the war.
Who benefited from Mercantilism? What is the code?
What is the mother country, England. Making money for the mother country.
The document known as the first written constitution in the colonies, provided for the election of representatives
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence and the person who wrote them
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; Thomas Jefferson
How did the Proclamation of 1763 contribute to the colonists anger?
What is... they could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
The harsh winter camp that tested the Continental Army and helped them become stronger
What is Valley Forge?
This important event happened right after the Intolerable Acts were passed and where was it? *hint: meeting among representatives*
What is the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia
What are the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment
Thomas Paine wrote what document and why?
Common Sense, to explain it was 'common sense' to break up with Britain and become their own country
Two grievances towards King George III
Taxation without representation, quartering troops in colonists homes, no trial by jury, judges dependent on the Kings will, and King refusing the colonists permission to petition
Why is Saratoga known as the turning point of the war?
The colonists' victory convinced France to provide military and financial support to them.
The first casualty of the American Revolution
Who is Crispus Attucks