Angry Colonists
Enlightenment Influences Colonists
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Americans Create a Republic
Don't even think about it
100
Trade laws that prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britain.
What is the Navigation Acts?
100
Document issued in July 1776, that effectively broke all ties between the colonies and Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
How colonists got around paying import and export taxes.
What is smuggling goods out of small harbors?
100
This document established the U.S. as a republic.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
What has eyes but no ears, skin but no hair, white inside and brown outside?
What is a potato?
200
Forced colonists to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Major author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Act prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to anyone except this country.
What is Britain?
200
Number of states that recognized a need for national government.
What is 13?
200
Whats round, but not always around. Its light sometimes is dark sometimes Everyone wants to walk on me, but only few have
What is the moon?
300
Samuel Adams led this raid on British ships in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
All men have certain Unalienable Rights, that among these are...
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
300
Colonists were dissatified with taxation because they had no representation in this British body of government.
What is the Parliament?
300
Constitution had to be approved by this number of states.
What is 9?
300
This belongs to you but others use it more than you do.
What is your name?
400
Name of King of Britain that ignored the colonists protests
Who is King George III?
400
To prevent a powerful central government controlled by one person or group, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention created these.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches?
400
Act passed in this decade.
What is 1660's?
400
Federalists promised to add this to the Constitution to gain the support of the anti federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
For some I go fast for others I'm slow. To most people, I'm an obsession relying on me is a well practiced lesson
What is time?
500
The Second Continental Congress voted to raise an army under this Virginian, thus starting the American Revolution
Who is George Washington?
500
System in which power is divided between national and state governments.
What is the Federal System?
500
Trade laws were tightened after this event.
What is the French & Indian War?
500
Theorist whose works influenced the writers of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
500
When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing
What is a riddle?
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