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Causes of the American Revolution
100
He is an English philosopher during Enlightenment; wrote about natural rights and social contract theory; challenged "divine right of kings" theory?
Who is John Locke?
100
What are natural rights?
What are rights that are universal (for all); rights that everyone is born with; "God given"; include life, liberty & property?
100
American victory over British troops in 1777 that was a turning point in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
100
In December 1773, Samuel Adams warned Boston residents of the consequences of the Tea Act. Boston was boycotting the tea in protest of the Tea Act and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Define the French and Indian War.
What is the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
200
King of England during the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence blamed him for the abuse of power and not protecting their rights as Englishmen?
Who is the King George the Third?
200
Define Loyalists.
What are American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence?
200
The site of Cornwallis' surrender and last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
200
Convention on September 5, 1774, to protest the Intolerable Acts. The congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, voted for a boycott of British imports, and sent a petition to King George III, conceding to Parliament the power of regulation of commerce but stringently objecting to its arbitrary taxation and unfair judicial system.
What is The First Continental Congress?
200
Forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains and put the territory under British military control.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
A formal agreement establishing an association between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim.
What is an alliance?
300
"The Shot Heard Round the World"- The first battle of the Revolution in which British general Thomas Gage went after the stockpiled weapons of the colonists in Concord, Massachusetts.
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
300
The Second Continental Congress convention took place in this city.
Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
300
This document taxed nearly all printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
He was commander of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
400
People who supported the revolution.
Who were the patriots?
400
Was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
400
This brought an official end to the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
400
Also called the Coercive Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
500
He took part in the Boston Tea Party and famously alerted the Lexington Minutemen about the approach of the British in 1775.
Who is Paul Revere?
500
The idea that all men are created equal?
What is egalitarianism?
500
In South Carolina on January 17, 1781, during the Revolutionary War (1775-83), American troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) routed British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833). The Americans inflicted heavy casualties on the British, and the battle was a turning point in the war’s Southern campaign.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
500
This document is the official separation of the thirteen colonies from British rule.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
500
March 5, 1770, British soldiers who felt threatened by a mob of angry protesters fired shots that left several colonists dead or dying.
What is the Boston Massacre?
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