Acts
Which act was so effectively boycotted that it was soon repealed?
The Stamp Act
342 chests of tea were destroyed after midnight on December 16, 1773 by colonists dressed as Native Americans
The Boston Tea Party
One of the following was not part of the original 13 colonies: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, New Jersey
Florida
British Government hired these 30,000 German soldiers to help fight against the colonists
Hessians
This person published a small pamphlet entitled "Common Sense", which called for a complete break from Great Britain
Thomas Paine
These men served in voluntary militias that could be ready to fight at a moment's notice
Minutemen
This act lowered the tax on the molasses the colonists imported. Britain hoped this change would convince the colonists to pay the tax instead of smuggling.
The Sugar Act
Five colonists were killed by British soldiers in this incident on the streets of Boston, March 5, 1770
The Boston Massacre
This colony was the only not in attendance when the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia
Georgia
This man wrote Commentaries on the Law of England
William Blackstone
He was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
The Declaration of Independence was signed on this month, date, and year
July 4, 1776
This act taxed imported goods, such as glass, tea, and paper
The Townshend Acts
Which of these was NOT founded as a result of the Great Awakening?
1. Brown, 2. Yale, 3. Princeton, 4. Rutgers
Yale
Thomas Jefferson was 1 of 7 delegates from this colony
Virgina
This woman was an African-American poet and the first black female writer in America
Phillis Wheatley
This man was a young Irishman who defended the colonial cause in Parliament
Edmund Burke
This man was the leader of the Green Mountain Boys
Ethan Allen
Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party was to pass these punitive laws in 1774
The Intolerable Acts
What theory stated that the colony exists for the benefit of the mother country?
Mercantilism
This colony was the last to vote on the changes to the Declaration of Independence
New York
This man wrote a number of letters titled “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies.”
John Dickinson
The British general who captured Fort Ticonderoga in 1777
General John Burgoyne
This agreement showed the spiritual decline of New England
Halfway Covenant
This order prohibited colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains on Native American Land
The Proclamation of 1763
Where did the first and second continental congress meet?
Philadelphia
By the end of the war, this was the only state without African Americans enlisted
South Carolina
This man was the most powerful English Evangelist of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield
George Washington plotted to have this man kidnapped
Benedict Arnold
The final battle of the American Revolution
The Siege of Yorktown
This was a formal request delegates sent to Britain as a last chance of avoid war
The Olive Branch Petition
This man became the Hanover king of England in 1760
George III
He said, "The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American."
Patrick Henry
This man was a missionary to the Indians
David Brainerd
This individual recorded one of the first battles at sea against a British Navy fleet
John Paul Jones
After shooting colonists in the back at Lexington Green, the redcoats shouted this three times
Huzzah!