Important People
The Constitution
Reasons for the American Revolution
Vocabulary
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He was chosen to lead the continental army.
Who is George Washington.
100
This amendment gave voting rights to American men.
What is amendment 15
100
This war (BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION) was very expensive, and King George decided the Americans should pay for it with taxes.
What is the French and Indian War
100
Someone who wants their own freedom and their own country
What is a patriot.
100
Which two countries fought during the American Revolution?
What are England and America (The 13 Colonies)
200
He was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
200
This document lists basic rights and freedoms for American citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights.
200
This was a tax on all printed goods in America
What is the Stamp Act
200
a mass stoppage of work in protest
What is a worker's strike
200
Who became our first American President?
Who is George Washington.
300
He was the president of the country during the Civil War and wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
300
This amendment gave voting rights to women
What is amendment 19.
300
This was the law that required colonists to allow British soldiers into their homes to eat and sleep.
What is the Quartering Act.
300
The document that stated America is their own free country.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
300
The inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell.
400
He was the inventor of the light bulb and the world's first research laboratory
Who is Thomas Edison
400
This amendment ended slavery, except for when someone is convicted of a crime.
What is amendment 13
400
This was the event in which many Patriots boarded a British ship and destroyed all of the product on board.
What is the Boston Tea Party
400
Using children to work in factories or industrial farm
What is child labor
400
process that was used to remove carbon from iron in order to create steel.
What is the Bessemer Process.
500
He was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre and was a Black sailor
Who is Crispus Attucks.
500
This amendment gives American citizens the right to a speedy, public trial.
What is Amendment 6.
500
This was the event when British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing innocent civilians, including Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre
500
Major oil business owner who once said, "God gave me my money".
What John D. Rockefeller.
500
This case in 1857 said that "African Americans were not and could never be citizens."
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
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