A political protest by the Sons of Liberty against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
This document written by Thomas Jefferson stated that Americans were no longer subjects of King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Credited with making the first American flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
100
The first Constitution that established the original 13 colonies as a nation.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
A contract signed in 1215 by Britain’s King John which listed rights and freedoms that the government could not deny its people. It also stated that those who govern the land are subject to follow the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
On March 5, 1770, five civilian men were killed and 6 were injured after an angry mob surrounded
lobster backs.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The battle where the “Shot heard ‘round the world” was fired.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
200
The artist who drew the first American Political cartoon entitled, Join, or Die.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
An uprising of farmers and veterans against the Massachusetts legislature.
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
200
A Greek philosopher who believed that governments must be responsible to their people.
Who is Aristotle?
300
This Act stated that colonists had to pay a tax on every piece of paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
Colonial farmers who were trained to fight the British.
Who are the Minutemen?
300
Led a retreat where 9,000 American soldiers crossed the East River in the middle of the night.
Who is General George Washington?
300
Allowed settlers in western lands (north of the Ohio River) to form new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
A compromise that created the House of Representative and the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The British placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important products which the colonists boycotted because they did not want to pay the higher price on these items.
What is the Sugar Act?
400
Last battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown.
400
The primary writer of the United States Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
400
Leaders from 13 states met in this building to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is Independence Hall?
400
A plan that suggested a central government that had 3 branches legislature, executive, and judiciary. Members of the legislative branch would have proportional representation.
What is the Virginia plan?
500
A series of laws that stated all of a colony’ s imports must be bought from England or resold by English merchants in England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
500
Delegates from the 13 colonies who became the governing body during the American Revolution
What is the Continental Congress?
500
The British General who surrendered to Americans at the Battle of Yorktown.
Who is General Cornwallis?
500
Slept 4 hours a night in the weeks leading up to the Great Convention because he was studying famous philosophers.
Who is James Madison?
500
A plan that suggested a one house legislature where each state had an equal vote.