Show:
Acts
Important People
Wars and Rebellions
Events
Terms
100
An act that occurred in 1764 that placed a tax on 3 pence of molasses and taxed certain imported items such as sugar, coffee, and wine.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
He is one of the Founding Fathers and is the second president. He opposed the Stamp Act and signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Adams?
100
A conflict that occurred on March 5, 1770, which colonists rebelled against the British in result of the British taxes and the British. Violence arose and five colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
This gave America its independence, life, and liberty. Americans were no longer under Britain's command.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This word means a positive balance in trade.
What is mercantilism?
200
An act that occurred in 1765 that placed a tax on all paper, such as newspapers and written documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
He wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A rebellion that began in 1786 in which farmers from West Massachusetts rebelled against those in Boston who created taxes.
What is the Shay's Rebellion?
200

This was the first government

Articles of Confederation

200
Colonists loyal to the king.
Who are the Loyalists?
300
An act that occurred in 1765 that forced colonists to house and supply British forces.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
He wrote "Common Sense," which argued for colonial independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
A rebellion that occurred in 1794 in which farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
300

These papers defended The US Constitution

What is the Federalists Papers?

300
The "hands-off" policy established by the British.
What is salutary neglect?
400
An act that occurred in 1767 that put a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
400

He wrote the "Albany Plan of Union"

Ben Franklin

400
This event occurred in 1773 when many colonists disguise as Indians, board some ships, and dump all the tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
This forbade all settlement along the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
400

This term is defined by sneaking in goods.

What is smuggling?

500

The first capital was in which state?

New York

500

He said, "Give me liberty or give me death." He led the protest against the Stamp Act.

Who is Patrick Henry?

500
A war of independence between Britain and the thirteen colonies. The colonists overthrew British rule.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
500

This act created a boundary for slave states and non-slave states

Missouri Compromise

500
This was the final offer of peace with Britain made by the colonists.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?