Road to Revolution
This 1765 law placed a direct tax on newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, and other printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged ordinary colonists to support complete independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
He served as commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
The Greek word for an independent city-state.
What is a polis?
This philosopher became famous for teaching by asking questions rather than simply giving answers.
Who is Socrates?
Colonists used this phrase to argue that Parliament should not tax them when they had no elected representatives there.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people possess natural rights and that government should protect them.
Who is John Locke?
This winter encampment became a symbol of hardship, perseverance, and the development of a more professional Continental Army.
What is Valley Forge?
This Greek city-state became famous for direct democracy and citizen participation.
What is Athens?
This student of Socrates founded a school called the Academy.
Who is Plato?
This colonial resistance group organized protests against British taxes and sometimes intimidated tax collectors.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Life, liberty, and property are examples of these rights that belong to people simply because they are human.
What are natural rights?
This Prussian officer helped train Washington's army at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
This city-state emphasized military discipline and developed an oligarchic government.
What is Sparta?
Plato's student who studied logic, politics, biology, ethics, and the natural world.
Who is Aristotle?
Parliament passed these laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts / Coercive Acts?
This group included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
What is the Committee of Five?
This French nobleman volunteered to help the American cause and became an important supporter of Washington.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
Mountains and islands encouraged Greece to develop many independent communities instead of this type of government.
What is one unified central government?
The questioning method used to test beliefs and reasoning is named for this philosopher.
Who is Socrates?
Britain's enormous debt from this war helped lead Parliament to increase taxes and control over the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
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Put these ideas in the Declaration's logical order: grievances, independence, natural rights, government by consent.
What are natural rights -> government by consent -> grievances -> independence?
Benjamin Franklin helped persuade this European nation to become America's most important military ally.
What is France?
This conqueror spread Greek culture across a huge empire, helping create the Hellenistic world.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The blending and spread of Greek ideas with other cultures after Alexander's conquests is connected to this historical process.
What is cultural diffusion?