We should stay under the British because we don't know if we will be as successful as we've been without their protection.
Who is a Loyalist?
100
This act placed customs duties on British glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
What is the Townsend Act?
100
Patriot who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
Books or commentaries from people who were not present at past events or alive during the period they happened.
What is a secondary source?
100
Type of map that shows boundaries, cities, and states.
What is a political map?
200
We need to try to resolve this thing peacefully and avoid war.
Who is a moderate?
200
These 4 acts together closed Boston Harbor, shut down civilian courts, forced colonists to feed and shelter British soldiers, and placed a British governor in control of Massahusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
200
King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
200
The process of finding the meaning or significance of historical events.
What is historical inerpretation?
200
Author of Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
We have given you protection all these years, so you should obey us and pay these taxes.
Who is the British government?
300
While protesting the taxes by the British, 5 American colonists ended up being killed in what became known as this event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
300
Former Prime Minister of England who was outspoken against American colonists for not obeying British taxes.
Who is George Grenville?
300
A system of government founded on the principle that the power to rule comes from the consent of the governed.
What is a democracy?
300
The first colonial legislature.
What is the House of Burgesses?
400
No taxation without representation.
Who is a Patriot?
400
This required that every piece of paper you used bear the official symbol of the king, showing you paid to use that paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
Religious group of people who wanted peace because war went against their religion.
Who were the Quakers?
400
This ideal lies at the heart of what we call the "American Dream".
What is opportunity?
400
A form of government inherited by family members.
What is a monarchy?
500
Britain and the king are too far away to know what is best for the colonies.
Who is a Patriot?
500
This first Act of Parliament in 1763 declared that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
This person called the events in Boston a massacre, leading to its name, and he was also one of the key leaders who had Boston colonists boycott British goods. (Also a famous beer company)
Who is Samuel Adams?
500
One of the reasons we study history is because it helps us develop this, which is the ability to imagine yourself in another's place to understand their feelings, desires, ideas, and actions.
What is empathy?
500
Intellectual movement from the 1600 and 1700s which influenced many of the ideas of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.