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First & Second Continental Congress
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Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the Declaration Of Independence?
100
Taxed Paper
What was the Stamp Act?
100
The Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party
What kind of trouble did Massachusetts get in?
100
Had a special gun barrel that "spinned" the bullet.
What is the long rifle?
100
Olive Branch Petition
What petition ask King George to protect the colonists rights and wanted peace?
200
Roger Sherman
Who wrote the Great Compromise?
200
Taxed Sugar
What is the Sugar Act?
200
To isolate Massachusetts and scare the other colonies.
What is Intolerable Acts?
200
Smallpox
What disease was stopped from spreading at Valley Forge?
200
John Hancock
Who was president of the Second Continental Congress? Who wrote his signature really big for King George to see?
300
A drawing by Patrick Henry that was a rallying cry for independence.
What is a drawing of a snake cut into 13 pieces? What drawing told colonist that the should JOIN or DIE?
300
Colonist must house the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
300
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Where were the first shots of the American Revolution?
300
Sniper rifle that could shoot 200 yards.
What is the long rifle?
300
Three ways the Second Continental Congress began to govern.
What is Printing money, Setting up a post office, Creating the Continental Army, Choosing George Washington as leader of the Army, set up committees to talk to Native Americans.
400
John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee and George Washington.
Who were the delegates to the Second Continental Congress?
400
Closed the port in Boston
What is the Intolerable Acts?
400
Bunker Hill
What was the first battle between the British Army and the Continental Army?
400
The British Navy
Who was the number one navy in the world during the Revolutionary War?
400
Voted to boycott the British goods.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
What colonist thought about King George.
What is taxing to much and taking away their freedom.
500
"Taxation without representation"
Taxation without Representation meant that Colonists had not voted for the taxes or elected the members of Parliament.
500
Elect their officials, to petition, and to vote.
What did the British citizens get to do that colonist couldn't do?
500
France
Who helped the colonist win the American Revolution?
500
Great Compromise
What was the document that created to houses of congress, the Senate and the House of Representative?