Colonial America
This act taxed sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
This was the name given to colonists who wanted independence from Great Britain.
What are patriots?
He was the first person elected to this position in our country.
What is President of the United States?
This is the year the war began.
What is 1812?
He led troops in this battle in the War of 1812.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
This was a form of protest by the colonists where the threw tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was the name given to colonists who remained loyal to Great Britain.
What was loyalists?
This is what GW did during the American Revolution.
What is commander of the Continental Army?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What is Tennessee?
This act taxed most items made of paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is the name of the document that officially declared America was breaking away from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This is what GW wanted to do after the American Revolution.
What is retire?
This was the practice of kidnapping American soldiers and forcing them to serve in the British Navy.
What is impressment?
The name of the path many Native Americans walked when being removed from their homes.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was the slogan many colonists used to protest being taxed without having a voice or vote.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
This was the first battle in the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord
Secretary of State, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General.
What are cabinet positions created by George Washington?
This woman saved many national treasures when Washington D.C. was burned.
Who is Dolley Madison?
Over 4,000 members of this Native American tribe died on the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
These acts closed Boston Harbor, stopped town meetings in Massachusetts, and made colonists house British soldiers.
What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts?
This was the battle that ended the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
GW was unanimously elected to this position when developing America's new form of government.
What is President of the Constitutional Convention?
What are trade restrictions and impressment?
This is the act that forced thousands of Native Americans to move from the Southeast to land west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?