Causes of American Revolution
This cause of the American Revolution was also called the Seven Years' War.
What is the French and Indian War?
This document proclaimed to the world that the American colonies were united in the fight for independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These older colonists were still loyal to the mother country.
Who are Loyalists?
This was the first written Constitution for America.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This event took place when colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This cause of the American Revolution required colonists to buy a government stamp for nearly every paper document.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is known as the introduction to the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Preamble?
This group of settlers supported independence from England.
Who are Patriots?
This document was created after the Articles of Confederation did not work.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
These 3 countries were competing for land in North America for centuries.
Who are Great Britain, France, Spain?
The middle section of the Declaration of Independence is a list of 27 complaints against King George and the British Parliament.
What are Grievances?
This Georgia city was the site of the beginning of the American Revolution.
This is the name of the event where the delegates discarded the Articles of Confederation and created U.S. Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
These 3 Georgians signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?
This cause of the American Revolution was a document that prohibited colonists from moving to the west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This is the final part of the Declaration of Independence officially declaring the colonies free from British rule.
What is Declaration?
This was the 2nd bloodiest battle of the American Revolution and only lasted 90 minutes.
What is the Siege of Savannah?
Georgia was what state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is 4th?
On April 19th, 1775, the first battle of the American Revolution took place here.
What is Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts?
This group was unhappy with the unfair tax on paper goods.
Who are the Liberty Boys?
These were the 3 parts of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the preamble, grievances, and declaration?
This battle in the American Revolution broke the British stronghold in Georgia and led to a Patriot victory and boosted the morale of Georgia's Patriots.
What is the Battle of Kettle Creek?
Final Jeopardy Question... List 3 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
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Abraham Baldwin and William Few were important in Georgia's history. Why?
Signers of the U.S. Constitution as members of the Georgia delegation.