Pre-Revolution
Wampum!
This official announcement offered emancipation to any enslaved person who would fight on the side of the British.
(an extra 25 points for the year!)
(Lord) Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
These soldiers were hired by the Hanoverian empire to fight in the American Revolution although they were neither colonists nor British.
Hessians
These two publication series argued about the ratification of the Constitution
The Federalist and Brutus's essays
This guy was king before the guy who was king during the American Revolution
George II
This southern event was precipitated on the King of Spain's promise to emancipate the enslaved if they could get to Spanish territory. Include the decade of the event for full points.
Stono Rebellion (1739)
The reason 55 men got together to mess around with government issues in Philadelphia in 1774
The First Continental Congress (September 1774)
These world powers, symbolized by the rooster, snake, and 2 different dogs, were portrayed as ganging up on a lion. Which animals symbolize which powers?
France is the rooster, America the snake, the Dutch and Spanish the 2 dogs, England the lion.
This series of attacks on courthouses in Massachusetts was in part a response to taxes imposed upon the citizens after the American Revolution
Shays' Rebellion (1786-1787)
This guy was executed in 1793
King Louis XVI of France
The cultural mediator for natives and white colonists whose death helped precipitate King Philip's War
(A bonus 100 points for the years of the war)
John Sassamon
KPW - (1675-1678)
This Act of Parliament, passed the same day a different Act was repealed, stated that the Crown and Parliament had the full power and authority to make and pass laws that "bind the colonies and people of America...in all cases whatsoever."
The Declaratory Act (March 1766)
This exodus by British supporters occurred alongside the largest emancipation movement of enslaved peoples that would occur until the American Civil War.
Loyalist Diaspora
This idea put forward at the Constitutional Convention focused on the importance of equal representation for every state in a one-house national legislature.
the New Jersey Plan
This snowball fight gone wrong turned into one of the best propaganda tools for the patriots before the War.
Boston Massacre / Bloody Massacre (March 1770)
These 2 major events in colonial history in these 2 respective areas were occurring 100 years before the Revolutionary War in different parts of the colonies
(give names and locations)
Bacon's Rebellion (1676-1677), Virginia; King Philip's War (1675-1678), New England
Several Parliamentary Acts played a large part in the rising animosity between the colonies and the British state. Give 3 of the 4, and put them in chronological order. (For a bonus 100, give the years of each)
What are...
The Stamp Act (March 1765)
The Declaratory Act (March 1766)
The Townshend Acts (June-July 1767)
The Coercive Acts (March-June 1774)
This political statement/document asserted that "the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments"
(give title and year!)
Declaration of the Rights of Man (France, 1789)
This document said the following: "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." (document, author, year)
Federalist #51, James Madison (1788)
This woman was sent the 18th c version of convo screenshots that were happening between Abigail and John Adams (and also was asked to maybe petition to Congress nbd)
Mercy Otis Warren
This code-enthusiastic man argued that the use of slaves "ruin[ed] the industry of our White People" (name, date)
William Byrd, 1736
The following religious sentiment was offered to Washington's troops before the Battle of Trenton: "God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction...who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war by every decent method which wisdom could invent."
For full points, give the author's name and year of publication of the source. For an extra 25 points - give the title of the source.
Thomas Paine, "the American crisis, no. 1" (December 1774)
Enlistment in this Caribbean military group offered either emancipation or upward social mobility to gens de couleur
The Chausseurs Volontaires
Monarchical - King vs. Royal Governor; Aristocratic - House of Lords vs. Council; Common People - House of Commons vs. Colonial Assemblies
These are the full names of both of your TAs and your professor for HIST 50a/150a this quarter
Caroline Winterer, Matt (Alexander) Randolph, Courtney MacPhee