Documents of Destiny
Important People
Acts
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

The document that helped establish the practice of majority rule & self government to preserve common good in 1620.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

100

British monarch who reigned during the American Revolution.

Who is King George III?

100
The law placing tax on sugar, molasses, and other goods shipped to the American colonies.
What is The Sugar Act?
100
To refuse to buy one or more goods imported from a certain source.
What is boycott?
100
When a group of men from the Boston Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and snuck onto three British tea ships. They destroyed a total of 342 chests of tea to protest against the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200

Nobles forced King John to sign it in 1215 to limit monarchs powers & establish some rights for the people.

What is the Magna Carta?

200

The creator and leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty.

Who is Samuel Adams?

200
The law that requires colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they used such as newspapers, wills, licenses, and playing cards.
What is the stamp act?
200
The search warrant that allowed British officers to search homes and businesses for smuggled goods during the time of the Townshend Acts.
What is the Writs of Assistance?
200
When British parliament named William and Mary the new monarchs of England. It showed that the parliament can get rid of bad kings or queens.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
300

The document that declared American independence from Britain. It was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

Lawyer, first VP, second Pres, major patriot, helped create our whole country, believed in evidence, facts, rule of law & strong but limited government. 

Who is John Adams?

300
The act that lowered the cost of tea that was sold by the British East India trading company. Even taxed British tea became cheaper than smuggled Dutch Tea which gave the British a monopoly.
What is the Tea Act?
300
Taxes placed imported goods.
What are duties?
300
When five colonists were shot and killed by British soldiers in Boston during a protest.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400

In 1688, it lists  specific limits placed on the English monarchy and includes rights of the people.

What is the English Bill of Rights?

400

Boston silversmith who rode into the countryside to spread news of British troop movement.

Who is Paul Revere?

400
The law ordering colonial assemblies to provide British troops with living quarters. The colonists also had to supply the soldiers candles, firing, bedding, cooking utensils, salt, vinegar, and beer or cider.
What is the Quartering Act?
400
To buy as an investment.
What is speculate?
400
It began meeting in Philadelphia. They agreed to create a Continental Army with George Washington as its commanding general.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
500

The document that has been called the first written constitution in America.

What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

500

The sailor of African-American and Native American ancestry who died at the Boston Massacre.

Who is Crispus Attucks?

500
Series of laws known in Britain as the Coercive Acts, meant to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and clamp down on resistance in other colonies. They were so harsh that colonists called them "intolerable."
What is the Intolerable Acts?
500
A military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
What is Militia?
500
When fifty leaders met from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia. They agreed to send a polite message to the King to consider their complaints and respect their rights. They also called for a boycott of British goods until Parliament repealed the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
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