Rivalry and Control
This was the war, against France, in which Britain was left with a staggering debt.
What is the Seven Years War?
This was the group loyal to the British Crown and did not favor a war for independence.
Who are the Loyalists?
This person was the principle author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
These are the three branches of government established by the Constitution.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?
The ideas of this philosopher were brought into the Declaration by Thomas Jefferson and changed from the right to "Life, Liberty, and the ownership of Property."
Who is John Locke.
This was the country who won control over much of North America Following the Seven Years War with the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
Who is Great Britain?
(Who is the British?)
(Who is Britain?)
This group favored opposing British rule and claiming independence.
Who are the Patriots?
This completes the line "...they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and _________?
What is, The Pursuit of Happiness.
The Articles of Confederation gave most of the governing power to what group?
What are the individual states.
This was the feeling that was given to the rest of the world by the American Revolution.
What is Hope?
This was the Act parliament passed in 1765 that taxed all manner of documentation including: wills, contracts, mortgages, newspapers, and pamphlets.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the king in charge of Great Britain during the conflict.
Who is King George III?
Thomas Jefferson denounced this practice in his original draft of the Declaration.
What is slavery.
This was the Article passed in 1777 by the newly appointed government which set up a central government, with a congress that had the authority to declare war, make peace, deal with other nations and settle disputes between the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The result of the new American Government didn't provide rights to everyone. Specifically, women, those who didn't own property and this group were barred from voting.
Who are slaves?
With increasing tax acts directed at the colonists, they used this type of argument to express their concerns over being taxed unfairly.
What is "taxation without representation?"
The Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance in which colonists dumped a shipment of British Tea into the harbor after this Company was given a monopoly on tea shipments.
Who is the British East India Company?
King George hired these German mercenaries to fight against the American Colonists.
Who are the Hessians.
This was the name for the 10 amendments added to the Constitutin in 1791.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The debt held by Britain was caused by the French and Indian war. They tried to force this group to pay down their debt.
Who are the colonists?
This mountain range was the furthest western border for British colonists after a Native American uprising in 1763
What are the Appalachians?
This was the term colonists used for the Acts and laws imposed on them that they felt were unfair such as the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the monopoly of the tea trade.
What are the Intolerable Acts.
George Washington was the colonial General who helped lead the American colonists to victory; General Cornwallis of the British army surrendurred to him after this famous battle.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This was the date that Delegates to the Constitutional Convention SIGNED the Constitution.
What is September 1787?
(Will also accept Fall 1787, or just the year of 1787)
The Treaty of Paris was negotiated by what great American figure who never became president but is featured on a piece of American money?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?