People who support the independence of the colonies
What is Patriot
100
Tax on Sugar
What is Sugar Act
100
Colonist taunting the British over taxes - snowballs led to deaths
What is Boston Massacre
100
Runaway slave who fled to Boston and was killed
What is Crispus Attucks
100
What is the Enlightenment
What is The Age of Reason
200
People who support the British cause
What is Loyalists
200
Could only buy tea from the Dutch East India Company
What is Tea Act
200
1st shots of the American Revolution occurred here
What is Lexington, MA
200
!st American woman published - wrote poems
What is Phyllis Wheatley
200
How did AA perceive the declaration?
What is they believed these ideas applied to them as well - how could you write this document and still have slavery; they hoped they would be free after the war
300
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
300
Tax on paper, paint, glass, and playing cards
What is Townsend Duties
300
Colonist dumping tea
What is Boston Tea Party
300
Finished designing Washington DC - genius, clock maker
What is Benjamin Banneker
300
Issued the proclamation freeing slaves if they fought for the British
What is Lord Dunmore
400
Led a group of white and black loyalists in the British army
What is Colonel Tye
400
Could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is Proclamation Line of 1863
400
War between France and British over the Ohio River Valley
What is French and Indian War
400
Why did the British tax the colonists?
They paid for the French and Indian War defending the colonists - so they were in a financial situation and needed to tax the colonists.
400
How are Phyllis Wheatley and Benjamin Banneker similar
What is Both were Patriots, both adopted white culture, both were educated
500
Name 3 black patriots
What is Peter Salem, Prince Hall, Prince Whipple, etc.
500
Tax on all legal documents
What is Stamp Act
500
This group met to declare the independence of the colonists
What is Continental Congress
500
How did the Enlightenment influence the colonists
What is the ideas of John Locke - Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness/Property