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These two countries fought each other in the French and Indian War.
Who is France and Britain?
This state was absent from the first Continental Congress in 1774.
What is Georgia?
This Boston event occurred in 1773 and was in response to protest the unjust tax of tea through the Tea Act of 1773.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Who is Britain?
The first president of the United States of America.
Who is George Washington?
This act required colonist to purchase paper with an official government stamp.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the first person to be killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
America declared independence on this date.
When is July 4, 1776?
This man was in charge of the Continental Congress.
Who is Peyton Randolph?
This act taxed colonial imports on paper, paint, and tea
What is the Townshend Act?
This event was seen as the first major act of defiance against British rule and tyranny.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The Declaration of Independence was declaring the colonists were going to fight for independence from Britain and not just ___.
What are equal rights?
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This Intolerable Acts inspired one of the rights in the Bill of Rights
What is the quartering Act?
This massacre led to the repeal of all the Townshend Acts except ___.
What is the Tea Tax?
This group approved of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was the Continental Congress?
This group was dressed up as to disguise the identity of the people who threw the tea overboard during the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
Colonists were upset at being taxed because they did not have a seat in the Parliament. This is called ____.
What is taxation without representation?
These were thrown by the two dozen saucy Boston rowdies at a British soldier guarding the customs house.
What are icicles and oyster shells?
These are the famous unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?