Geography
Vocab
Acts
Misc
Declaring Independence
100
This mountain range runs along the east coast of the USA and the center of Pennsylvania A. Rockies B. Cascades C. Appalachians D. Sierra Nevada
Appalachians
100
To refuse to Buy
Boycott
100
This was the first direct tax on the colonies.
Sugar Act
100
What event in history is the starting point toward American Independence?
French and Indian War
100
What day was the Declaration of Independence approved and officially accepted
July 4, 1776
200
What river is the 3rd longest in the world and cuts the United States in Half
Mississippi
200
Citizen Soldiers
Militias
200
The colonial name for laws that banned town meetings in Massachusetts and closed Boston Harbor was
Intolerable Acts
200
What was the first successful British settlement in the North America?
Jamestown
200
The Second Continental Congress expressed their desire for peace in the _________________ Petition
Olive Branch
300
What is the tallest mountain the the USA
Mount McKinley
300
source of money/income
revenue
300
Which act the British Parliament the right to tax and make decisions for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever?”
Declaratory Acts
300
Victim of Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
300
The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence was
Thomas Jefferson
400
What area or type of jobs do the majority of Americans have?
Service Jobs
400
Which colonists did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion?
Loyalists
400
Which act taxed almost all printed material in the colonies?
Stamp Act
400
Shouted “The regulars are out!" to war of British troop movements in Boston
Paul Revere
400
The shot heard round the world” refers to the actions of minutemen at
Lexington and Concord
500
What River forms the border between Mexico and the USA
Rio Grande
500
Colonial leaders used the Boston Massacre killings as
propaganda
500
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of the ______ mountains
Appalachians
500
To search a colonists house a British customs officer presented a
Writ of Assistance
500
Wrote Common Sense
Thomas Paine
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