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What vocabulary word means able to act and live as one chooses?
What is freedom.
100
Who fought in the French and Indian War?
Who is the French, Indians, and America
100
What was the Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain that required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.
What is the Stamp Act.
100
The first shots in the American Revolution fired because of the what massacre?
What is Boston Massacre.
100
Who was the first president of the United States?
Who is George Washington.
200
What is the practice of, or a system based on, using the enforced labor of other people?
What is slavery.
200
Who won the French and Indian War?
Who is America.
200
What act was passed in 1767 by the British Parliament, having been proposed by Charles Townshend. These laws placed a tax on common products, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea. The laws were not a direct tax, but a tax on imports.
What is The Townshend Acts.
200
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and who?
Who is thirteen British colonies on the North American continent.
200
Who was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
300
What are large estates or farms , especially in the South, where crops such as cotton, coffee, tea, or rubber trees are grown?
What are plantation homes.
300
Who fought in the Civil War?
Who are the Union(The North) and the confederate states (The South).
300
What were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the growing unrest in thirteen American colonies, particularly in Boston, Massachusetts after incidents such as the Boston Tea Party.
What are The Intolerable Acts.
300
The British Parliament insisted it had the right to tax colonists. What did the colonists claim to be illigal? that as they were British subjects, taxation without representation was illegal?
What is taxation without rpresentation.
300
Who is the founding father that discovered electricity?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Who are immigrants who contracted to work for an employer for a number of years in exchange for passage and accommodation?
Who are Indentured Servants.
400
Who won the Civil War?
Who is the Union, the North.
400
What did the British called their responsive measures to the Boston Tea Party? Boston Harbor was closed to trade until the owners of the tea were compensated. Only food and firewood were permitted into the port. Town meetings were banned, and the authority of the royal governor was increased.
What is the Coercive Acts.
400
What did the American boycott of taxed British tea lead to?
What is the Boston Tea Party.
400
"Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!" is a quotation from a speech made to the Virginia Convention by who?
Who is Patrick Henry.
500
What vocabulary word means to get rid of or do away with?
What is abolish.
500
What caused the Civil War?
What is disagreement between the North and South over state rights and slavery.
500
What act provided that local authorities must provide quarters for British troops?
What is The Quartering Act.
500
When did America become an independent counrty?
What is July 4, 1776.
500
Who was the prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military?
Who is Paul Revere.