This document is the original, “break up letter” between the American Continental Congress and the English monarchy.
The Declaration of Independence
100
Write the name and date(s) related to the following question: (1) The D______ of I________ was signed on (2) Date Month/Day/Year
(1) The Declaration of Independence & (2) 07/04/1776
100
What are the three branches of government in the U.S. federal government?
The executive, legislative, & judicial
100
This act taxed official court papers and other paper based goods like playing cards.
The Stamp act
200
This person wrote most of the [American] Constitution.
James Madison
200
This national document has been adopted by each state following the American Revolution
The Constitution
200
This event which occurred in 1773, resulted in a large amount of British goods ending up in the Boston harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
200
This concept which describes how national and state governments relate to one another, theorizes that federal law should supersedes state law.
Federalism
200
Crispus Attucks was killed at this event
The Boston Massacre
300
This person was the head of the Continental Army
General George Washinton
300
This law was intended to prevent colonist from displacing Native American populations west of the Appalachian mountains post French and Indian war.
The Proclamation of 1763
300
Often called the “shot heard around the world,” this battle sparked the beginning of the war period of the American Revolution
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
300
Virginia House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact are early examples of…
Representative government in colonial America
300
This act passed by the English allowed for English troops to be housed in the homes of Bostonians
The Quartering act
400
This question has two parts: (1) This group supported the monarchy during the Revolution (2) This group supported the American Revolution.
Write (1) & (2) next to your answers
(1) Loyalists (2) Patriots
400
This document outlined the original national government during the American Revolution and shortly after.
The Articles of Confederation
400
The blank blank was the name of the U.S. government legislative body during the American Revolution
Continental Congress
400
Prior to the American Revolution, the political economy of colonial America in relation to England could be described as?
Mercantilism & salutary neglect
400
The first Continental Congress voted to b______ English goods.
Boycott
500
This question has two parts: (1) This author wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense.” (2) What was common sense?
Write (1) and (2) next to your answers
(1)Thomas Paine (2) It was common sense to revolt against the King of England and form a democratic government.
500
This plan proposed running the national legislature (Congress) as under one house with each state having equal representation.
The New Jersey Plan
500
The name of the treaty which was signed to end the American Revolution and included the nations of France, Spain, the United States, and Britain.
Treaty of Paris
500
In the Second Treatise of Government, Locke argued that….
All individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain “inalienable*" natural rights.
500
This historian wrote the book, Revolutionary America: 1763-1815 (A) Francis Cogliano (B) Daniel Immerwahr (C) Colin Woodard (D) Howard Zinn (E) Eric Foner