Vocabulary and Key Ideas
What is the definition of unalienable rights?
What is: human rights that cannot be violated.
How did the Stamp Act help fuel the Boston Massacre?
What is: Colonists who were angry about British taxes took out their frustrations on British troops, who fired at the colonists?
Who is most likely to have made the following statement?
"Our Colonies must be the biggest Beggars in the World, if such small Duties appear to be intolerable in their Eyes."
What is: A British Citizen?
Why did many people believe that the Declaration of Independence justified an end to slavery?
What is: Because the Declaration of Independence stated, "All men are created equal."
What year was the Boston Massacre?
What is 1770?
What is the definition of natural rights?
What is: People are born with natural rights. Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government.
What are three factors that contributed to the colonies winning the American Revolution?
What is: Geography, a growing natural identity, and patriotism?
Where was Phillis Wheatley born?
What is West Africa
What state are the following cities located in Yorktown, Valley Forge, and Philadelphia?
What is : Pennsylvania?
What year did the The Battle of Lexington and Concord take place?
What is 1775?
Name two Allies of the United States.
What is: France and Spain?
What motivated African American soldiers to fight with Patriots during the Revolution?
What is: Most were enslaved, and they believed that the rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence would also apply to them and help them to gain their freedom.
What famous president did Phillis Wheatley write a poem for?
What is: Who is George Washington?
What state is the following cities in Boston, Lexington?
What is Massachuttes?
What year did the Sugar Act Tax take place?
What is 1764?
Why was the Boston Tea Party considered an example of civil disobedience?
What is: Colonists acted nonviolently to protest a law they considered unfair.
What is the difference of the Treaty of Paris signed in 1763 and the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783?
What is: Both treaties ended war. The Treaty of Paris 1763 ended the French and Indian War, The Treaty of Paris 1783 ended the American Revolution.
What languages did Phillis Wheatley master?
What is English, Greek, and Latin?
Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
What year did the Stamp Act take place?
What is 1765?
How did Patriots and Loyalists differ?
What is: Patriots supported breaking away from Britain, but Loyalists did not?
What was the relationship of American Indians to Europeans and to the colonists during the Revolutionary Era?
What is: During the French and Indian War, the Hurons and Alogonquins allied witht the French. The Irquois sided with the British.
Which king in France aided the American Revolution?
What is King Louis XVI?
Which one of these two were not signors of the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine, Paul Revere
What is: Thomas Paine, Paul Revere?
What woman did they mention in the text that sewed the American Flag?
Who is: Betsy Ross?