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Grab Bag
100
Definition of revenue.
What is incoming money from taxes and other sources.
100
First colonists killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
Civilians sworn to be ready to fight with only one minute's notice.
What is minuteman?
100
Formal introduction to a document.
What is preamble?
100
Two sides of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Patriots vs. the British?
200
A group of settlements that became the original states of the United States of America.
What is the 13 colonies?
200
Name of British monarch/royalty that ruled British.
Who is King George III?
200
Colonists who sided with Britain. They did not think unfair taxes and laws justified a rebellion.
What is Loyalists?
200
President of the Second Continental Congress.
Who is John Hancock?
200
Number of major sections that made up the Declaration of Independence.
What is 4 parts?
300
Lowered taxes on molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
300
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.
What is propaganda?
300
Colonists who believed they have the right to govern themselves. Determined to fight the British for American Independence.
What is Patriots?
300
A petition to King George III to ask him to protect the colonists rights.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
300
Event were 5 colonists were killed on March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre.
400
Prohibited colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
Captain who help fought with the colonists, but later became a traitor of selling information to the British.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
Pamphlet that listed powerful reasons why Americans would be better off free from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
400
Signed the Declaration first.
Who is John Hancock?
500
3 Acts that outraged the colonists to pay taxes for.
What is the Sugar Act, Stamp Act and Townshend Acts?
500
Series of laws that forced colonies to shelter British soldiers, banned town meetings, and closed Boston Harbor.
What is the Coercive Acts?
500
Warned the colonists that the British were coming. (*3)
Who is Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott?
500
Committee of 5 who wrote the Declaration.
Who is John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
500
Purpose of government according to John Locke.
What is to protect people's natural rights to life, liberty, and property?