Founding Fathers
He was appointed by the Second Continental Congress to be the head of the Continental Army based on his service record during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
This act decreased the tax on molasses in the hopes that the colonists would stop smuggling it into the colonies.
What is the sugar act?
This is the name given to the event where the Sons of Liberty organized a protest by throwing crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
This is the opening paragraph to the Declaration. It contains the thesis statement, and it explains why someone would need to seperate from their government.
What is the Preamble
This is a person who supported the colonies seperating from Britain and becoming Independent.
What is a Patriot?
The author of the Declaration. He believed that the Committee of Correspondence mangled his letter during the editing process.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was a tax that Great Britain placed on most printed products, including newspapers, books, and even playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This is the name given to the incident where British Soldiers fired on an angry American Mob where five colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This is the longest section of the Declaration. It contains a list of all the wrongs that King George III and Britain commited against the colonists.
What is the Listing of Grievances?
A group of people deciding not to buy certain goods or products as a form of protest
What is a boycott?
This is the man who defended the British Soldiers who were involved in the Boston Massacre at Trial. He will late become the second President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
These are taxes that Britain placed on many imported goods including glass, ink, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty used this to gain sympathy for the Independence Movement and influence peoples opinions after the Boston Massacre?
What is propaganda?
Thomas Jefferson called these Inalienable Rights and John Locke called them natural rights. These are three rights that every person is entitled to when they are born?
What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
These were the people in the colonies who wanted to remain loyal to Britain.
Loyalists
This was the man who organized the Boston Tea Party and was the leader of the Sons of Liberty which was one of the largest groups calling for Independence in the Colonies.
Who is Sam Adams?
These were a series of five laws that were implemented by Great Britain as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?
This is the name of the first person to be killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks
This is the date the Decleration of Independence was signed. (You need to include the year it was signed)
What is July 4th, 1776?
Members of certain militias who claimed that they could be ready at a minute's notice
What is a minuteman (minutemen)
This is the author of Common Sense a pamphlet that he wrote to convince the colonists that a war for their Indpendence was necessary for the survival of the colonies.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This was one of the Intolerable Acts, it forced the colonists to allow British Soldiers to stay in their homes and eat their food.
What is the Quartering Act?
This is the total dollar amount worth of tea that was dumped into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
What is 2 Million Dollars?
This was the president of the Second Continental Congress and he signed the Declaration with a big signature.
Who is John Hancock?
These were documents that British Officers used to search the homes of people who they thought were smuggling goods.
What is a Writ of Assistance