Potpourri
This was the first representative legislature in the colonies.
What is The House of Burgess?
Known also as the French and Indian War, this war was fought between Britain, France, and the Iroquois.
What is the Seven Years' War?
More controversial because of its wider affects, this act was passed in 1765.
What is the Stamp Act?
This country had home field advantage.
What is the USA?
This major rebellion, put down by a state militia, made the push for a new Constitution all the louder.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This happened in Jamestown in 1676.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
What George Washington had to do at Fort Necessity.
What is surrender?
Large segments of the population were mobilized, and a smaller section threw a certain beverage overboard, after the passage of this act.
What is Tea Act?
Preferring the company of his mistress, this British general failed to advance northward beyond Philly.
Who is General Howe?
Quite possibly the greatest success of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This many votes were needed to pass a law in the legislature under the Articles.
What is 9?
It was here that the Seven Years' War was ended.
What is Paris?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, these acts with two different names were passed. (Both names needed)
What are the Coercive or Intolerable Acts?
The Declaration of Independence was written to do this.
What is justify independence?
Finished off by the American Revolution, this confederacy eventually broke apart.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
She famously said to her husband, "Remember the Ladies!"
Who is Abigail Adams?
Following this even, Samuel Adams stirred up outrage via his Committee of Correspondence.
What is the Boston Massacre?
More of a tax on luxury than necessity, this act was passed early on.
What is the Sugar Act?
This American general took Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
Who is George Washington?
Thomas Paine's most famous pamphlet.
What is "Common Sense"?
He led a rebellion on the western frontier, in part prompting the British to issue the Proclamation of 1763.
Who is Pontiac?
A collective assembly that met in September 1774 after the colonial assemblies were suspended by the British.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This act was passed at the very same time that the Stamp Act was repealed.
What is the Declaratory Act?
The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged these three things.
What is their lives, fortunes, and honor?
The phrase given to describe relations between Britain and her American colonies prior to the 1760s.
What is salutary neglect?