Significant People
Who was the US’s first president?
George Washington
This British act demanded the colonies accept all British taxes without question.
Declaratory Act
“Join or die” - Who coined the phrase?
Benjamin Franklin
What ideal encouraged women to stay at home to educate their children as their duty to the country?
Republican Motherhood
>What was the name of the treaty signed that ended the american revolution?
Treaty of Paris
Who wrote the famous pamphlet, Common Sense?
Thomas Pane
What American victory in the revolutionary war led the colonies to gain french aid.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
What was the first armed engagement between the british and colonists?
Lexington and Concord
Who wrote “Remember the Ladies?
Abigail Adams
What group primarily pushed the term “Massacre” for the Boston shootings of 1770?
Sons of Liberty
Nickname of the colonial Patriots
What are the Whigs?
Who helped standardize American English in the first history book on the American Revolution?
Mercy Otis Warren
What uprising displayed the weakness of the federal government under the AOC and led to a call for a stronger central government?
Shays Rebellion
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. “
Who is Thomas Paine?
What was Benjamin Franklin’s unsuccessful plan to unite colonies for the French-Indian War?
What is the Albany Plan of Union (1754)?
The company that the tax on tea was meant to aid financially.
What is the East Indian Company?
Who was a prominent anti-slavery advocate from 1750-1770?
James Forten
What British act including a quartering act?
Townshend Act
“Is resistance to the king justified if the republic is threatened?”
Who is Samuel Adams?
The name of the financial crisis that occurred in 1740 Massachusetts that resulted as a lack of real currency.
What is the “Land Bank” Crisis of 1740?