Britain and France claim the same land in North America.
What is the major cause of the French and Indian War?
100
A voice in government.
What is Representation?
100
Colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
100
Main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Lands West of the Appalachians belong to the Indians and East belong to the settlers.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
Colonist boycotted or refused to buy British goods.
How did the Colonist protest taxes on British goods?
200
Colonists were to pay for the tea, British war ships closed the Boston Harbor and Parliament passed a laws quartering soldiers.
What is the Coercive Acts?
200
British realized fighting the colonist would not be easy.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
200
July 4, 1776 is an important day in American History.
When did Congress vote to accept the Declaration of Independence?
300
British passed new tax laws.
What way did the British government pay for the French and Indian War?
300
It spread information quickly.
What is the Committee of Correspondence?
300
He called for a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for Independence from Britain.
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
300
Marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
300
First plan of government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
Governments are instituted (formed) among men, deriving (getting) their just powers from the consent of the governed. - Declaration of Independence 1776
Democracy Government of the People, by the people, for the people.
400
He organized the Committee of Correspondence and the Boston Tea Party.
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
Congress sent a petition to King George III asking for peace.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
400
Held the states together during the Revolutionary War.