Famous People
Gary B. Nash
Minorities & Women
American Revolution
Writers
100
King of England during the Revolution.
Who is George III?
100
Nash places a large share of responsibility for not freeing the slaves on this region.
What is the North?
100
She was laughed at by her husband when she asked for women rights.
Who is Abigail Adams?
100
This tax on printed materials angered the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
He defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre
Who is John Adams?
200
This invention destroyed the abolitionist movement in the late 1700’s.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This American ideal towards women hurt and helped the feminist cause in the early 1800’s.
What is Republican Motherhood?
200
Radical group in Boston who led the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
200
British philosopher who inspired the American and French Revolutions with his ideas on natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
300
He alerted that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
300
This “territory” sale could have been used to free the slaves.
What is the Northwest Territory?
300
This group of African Americans responded to Dunmore’s Proclamation.
Who are the Loyalists?
300
This act established British economic monopoly over the colonies before the 1750’s.
What are the Navigation Acts?
300
He wrote the Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
Fugitive slave who died in the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
Nash argues that this politically destroyed the abolitionist movement in the late 1700’s.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
400
This famous native American supported the British during the American Revolution.
Who is Thayendanegea?
400
These coercive acts were a British reprisal to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
This British philosopher who wrote the social contract believed that humans are quite evil and needed a powerful king to keep them in check.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
African American man who fought with the Minutemen at Bunker Hill.
Who is Who is Peter Salem?
500
Nash would argue that many in the south such as this writer of “give me freedom or give me death” believed in freedom for all including the slaves.
Who is Who is Patrick Henry?
500
This French man who fought on behalf of the Patriots once said that if he knew that the Patriots were not going to free the slaves that he would not have fought with them.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
500
Society of Friends Quaker-leader and inventor.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This French philosopher proposed separation of powers.
Who is the Baron of Montesquieu?