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The New World
A Taxing Time
Declaring Independence
Founding Fathers
Liberty and Justice for All?
100
The very first people known to live in North America?
Who are the Native Americans (Indians)
100
Why the King and British Parliament start taxing the colonies on the goods they purchased, such as tea
What is wanting to make extra money because it cost them a lot to set up and protect the new colonies
100
"One if by land and two if by sea" referred to...
What is the signal Paul Revere was waiting for to warn to minutemen. One lantern meant they were coming by land and two lanterns meant they were coming by sea.
100
The man who lead a group of farmers with no military experience into battle
Who is Commander in Chief George Washington
100
Finish this line from the Declaration of Independence..."We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and...
What is "...the Pursuit of Happiness"
200
The country many of the people who lived in the colonies originally came from
What is Great Britain (England)
200
The colonists response to the King's taxes and what was the event called
What is the colonists dumped the tea into the Boston Harbo, the Boston Tea Party
200
The British soldiers that came over to seize the colonists weapons
Who are the Redcoats
200
George Washington did this after the war ended
What is become president of the United States of America
200
The number of years someone can be president
What is 8
300
The number of British colonies settled along the coast of North America
What is thirteen
300
King George's response to the Boston Tea Party
What is closed the ports so that no supplies could get in or out of Boston
300
The shot heard 'round the world was the start to which major event in history
What is Revolutionary war
300
The rocking chair, bifocal lenses, lightning rod, wooden swimming flippers are all examples of
What are Benjamin Franklin's inventions
300
The groups of people that were not given certain rights at the time that the Declaration was written
Who are women, Native Americans, African American slaves
400
Governed and controlled the colonies
Who is the British King and British Parliament
400
A meeting of representatives from the colonies who got together to discuss what to do about Great Britain
What is the First Continental Congress
400
The author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
Thomas Jefferson got this nickname for helping design Washington D.C., he designed his home Monticello and he designed the University of Virginia
What is "the Father of American Architecture"
400
The reason we added more stars to the country's flag
What is we added more stars because more states have been added. There are now 50 instead of 13
500
English Pilgrims settled Plymouth Colony. Name two other English colonies in North America that were settled before the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth.
What are Roanoke Island and Jamestown
500
The colonists who wanted to remain loyal to the King
Who are the loyalists?
500
What we as a nation celebrate on July 4th
What is our independence from Great Britain
500
The second president of the United States who died on July 4th, 1826, the same day as Thomas Jefferson
Who is John Adams
500
The rules the Constitutional Convention wrote over 200 years ago that we still follow today.
What is the Constitution