Patriots vs. Loyalists
This group wanted independence from Britain.
Who are the Patriots?
This is usually done to secure the rights of the colonists.
What is form a government?
This act forced the colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This was the first colony to be settled.
What is Virginia?
True or false? George Washington was president at the time of the Continental Congress.
What is false?
This group lived mostly in the upper class.
Who are the Loyalists?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This act stopped people from leaving the port of Boston.
What is the Coercive Act?
Most colonists lived on these.
What are farms?
To levy war means this.
What is to start war?
These colonies were more likely to be Loyalist.
Who are the southern colonies?
List the 3 unalienable rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This act taxed all paper products.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is the first colony to prohibit the importation of slaves in 1769.
What is Rhode Island?
England received these in exchange for trading finished goods.
What are raw materials?
Was George Washington a Patriot or Loyalist?
Who is a Patriot?
In the Declaration of Independence, the word self-evident means this.
What is clear or obvious?
This act gave Britain the right to make any laws they wanted and the colonists had to obey them.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This colony was referred to as the breadbasket colony.
What is New York?
In the Declaratory Act, Britain had control of this.
What are colonists' rights?
This percentage of the population were Loyalists.
What is 20-30%
People should the people abolish the government when it becomes this.
What is destructive?
The British called them the Coercive Acts, but the colonists called them this name.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Pennsylvania was this type of colony.
What is a middle colony?
The Puritans established this type of school.
What are grammar schools?