Taxes! and Acts
This was a tax on all paper and documents.
What was the Stamp Act?
The primary writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Commander of the Continental Army and then the 1st President.
Who was George Washington?
What people loyal to the king were called.
What was Loyalists?
This Congress declared Independence
What was the 1st Continental Congress?
This Quartering act forced Colonists to do this.
What was house British Soldiers?
The day I was ratified and signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
The ruler of England during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
The people fighting for the Colonies were called.
What is a Patriot?
The Continental Congress was this.
What is a gathering of representatives from all 13 colonies?
This was the Colonist reaction to a tea tax.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
What the 1st paragraph is called.
What is the Preamble?
Continental soldier, 1st head of the Treasury Department, and subject of a popular musical.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
The nickname for the British Soldiers.
What is Redcoats?
This was sent to the King to try and restore peace before the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Olive Branch Letter?
The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, The Impartial Administration of Justice, and The Quartering Acts became know as this.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The name of the movement that inspired the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Enlightenment?
Diplomat, Postmaster general, Inventor, and discovered electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
These colonists got their nickname for being ready to fight with a few minutes notice.
Who were the Minutemen?
This original colony did NOT send a representative to the 1st Continental Congress
What was Georgia?
The Intolerable Acts were a punishment for this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Declaration was compared to this: (hint- text message powerpoint).
What was a breakup letter?
The British General that surrendered at Yorktown.
Who was General Cornwallis?
This treaty ended the American Revolution.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
The President of the 1st Continental Congress.
Who was Peyton Randolph?