Fighting Over North America
The English and French fought in this war in the New World.
What is the French and Indian War?
The general who now fought against the British.
Who is George Washington?
The day Thomas Jefferson and others signed the Declaration of Independence.
What is July 4, 1776?
After gaining their independence, the independent states had their own laws and ideas and needed this to unify them.
What is the constitution?
In 1769, James Watt invented this.
What is the steam engine?
The soldier who fought with the English against the French.
Who is George Washington?
The event when British soldiers killed 5 colonists and wouned others.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The year the British signed the agreement giving the colonies their independence.
What is 1783?
What is seperately?
Mills run by steam power instead of wind.
Ships and trains run by steam.
Steam engines needed more coal.
Train tracks were built across grazing land.
What are ways steam power changed Britain?
The French and the English were fighting over this region in current day Pennsylvania.
What is the Ohio Valley?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
After gaining their independence, the independent states had their own laws and ideas and needed this to unify them.
What is a constitution?
The federal government would have what three branches?
What are the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches?
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented this.
What is the cotton gin?
The war was called this in Europe.
What is the Seven Year's War?
Rode through town warning, "the British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Two ways the cotton gin changed America.
What are more cotton being picked per day and land owners planting bigger fields and buying more slaves?
After the war, the British tried to regain money by doing this.
What is taxation without representation?
By now the colonists no longer wanted representation in Parliament, they wanted this.
What is independence?
The year George Washington became the first president of the United States.
What is 1789?
What are interchangeable parts?