Tensions Grow
Name 2 main countries involved in the French and Indian War.
Who were the British and the French?
This ACT placed a tax on tea
What is Tea Act?
According to the DOI, if a group of people wished to abolish their government, what do they need to do first?
What is give the reasons why they are separating
These are the first few words of the Declaration of Indepence.
What is "When in the course of human events..."
According to the DOI, what did it say that the people could do if the government was not protecting their rights?
What is they could alter or establish a new one
Britain and France disagreed on this area of land.
What is Ohio River Valley?
This ACT allowed British soldiers to stay in the homes of colonists.
What is Quartering Act?
The colonists refused to buy certain goods and tea. What word means to refuse to buy goods.
What is boycott
The men who signed the DOI were committing what?
What is treason
What did TJ mean when he wrote "unalienable rights"
What is rights that cannot be taken away
This was the nickname given to those colonists who could not decide which side to support?
What are fence sitters
This ACT closed the Boston Harbor until the colonists did what?
What is until all the tea was paid for.
What does the term grievance mean?
What is complaint
This is a symbol of peace
What is the olive branch
According to the DOI, what three rights are unalienable?
What is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Because of the debt from the French and Indian War, King George III passed this act in the colonies to help pay for the war.
What is the Stamp Act?
These ACTS were King George's way of punishing the colonists for dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
How did the book written by Thomas Paine affect the colonists
What is it persuaded them that to declare independence was common sense.
Who did the congress appoint as the leader of the Continental Army?
Who was George Washington
Who wrote the DOI and in what year?
Who is Thomas Jefferson and in 1776
The first shot from the Battle of Lexington and Concord is known as what?
What is the shot heard round the world
The name of the governing body in England who created all the acts placed on the colonists.
What is Parliament?
What is the name of the booklet written by Thomas Paine?
What is Common Sense
Paul Reveres etching of The Boston Massacre was an example of this word.
What is Propaganda
Where was the DOI written
What is Philadelphia