Fighting
This battle started the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This document persuaded many colonists to fight back against Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
The document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Declaration states all of "these" people are created equal.
Who is all Men?
From top to bottom, these are the three colors in candy corn.
What is White, Orange, Yellow.
The first decision made by the Second Continental Congress.
The purpose of the Olive Branch Petition.
What is to ask King George to make peace with the colonies?
Freedom from control by another government or country.
What is Independence?
The power to rule comes from them.
Who is the governed? (or the people)
Rockwell's 1984 song “Somebody’s Watching Me” features this pop singer on the chorus.
Who is Michael Jackson?
The leader of the Continental army.
Who is George Washington?
The reason the Declaration of Independence was written.
What is to explain why the colonies were separating from Great Britain?
A formal, written request made to an official person or organization.
What is a petition?
The Natural Rights Jefferson describes in the Declaration of Independence.
Name all five Scooby-Doo characters. (Double Points)
Who are Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne, Fred, and Velma.
This group won the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Who is the British?
The issue delegates could not agree on when writing about it in the Declaration of Independence, so much so, that they took the passage written about it out of the document entirely.
What is the issue of slavery?
A pamphlet published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support independence.
What is Common Sense?
The rights people have over the government.
What is the right to alter, abolish, and create a new government?
On average, this is how many seeds are in a pumpkin.
What is 500?
This is how the Americans won the siege on Boston.
What is they lied about how much gunpowder they had, called Henry Knox to push 59 cannons 300 miles to them, and took control over Dorchester Heights.
To Great Britain, the signing of the Declaration of Independence was considered an act of this.
What is an act of Treason?
Rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law.
What are Natural Rights?
The reason Natural Rights are different from other Rights.
What is because we are born with then?
Another name for an “ugly or grotesque sprite” that's evil and mischievous.
What is a Goblin?