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vocabulary
Events leading to declaration
Declaration of Independence
continental congress
How well do I know my teacher?
100
This part of the government makes the laws.
What is the legislature?
100
This happened when the colonists starting expanding westward and the French didn't want them on their land.
What is the french and Indian War?
100
The second part of the Declaration Of Independence talks about this.
What are natural rights?
100
The first continental congress met because of these.
What were the coercive acts?
100
Mrs. Coleman's favorite thing to do?
What is travel?
200
This is a tax on imported goods
What is a duty?
200
The king made this act to help the colonists pay for the war dept. They had to put them on papers.
What is stamp act?
200
The complaints in the Declaration fo Independence are called this
What are grievances?
200
The second continental congress wrote this
What is the declaration of independence?
200
Where did Mrs. Coleman teach before coming to Elliott County?
What is East Carter?
300
To refuse to purchase certain products
What is a boycott?
300
This act put a new tax on tea, glass, lead, paints and paper but all were repealed except for the tax on tea.
What are the townshend acts?
300
The last part of the Declaration of Independence is known as this.
What is the Resolution of Independence?
300
What congress had disagreements and had to debate this issue/
What is the second continental congress?
300
What is Mrs. Coleman's favorite food?
What is pizza?
400
An official government announcement
What is a proclamation?
400
These acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists after the tea party. The colonists called them the intolerable acts.
What are the coercive acts?
400
The beginning part of the constitution is called this
What is the preamble?
400
The first continental congress wrote this for the king.
What is a letter asking that Britain respect the colonists rights as British citizens.
400
What is Mrs. Coleman's favorite color?
What is yellow?
500
a person that represents a group of people in a meeting.
What is a delegate?
500
This was not a tax on tea but required colonists to buy tea only from the British East India Company.
What is the tea act?
500
Thomas Jefferson said in the declaration of independence that the role of the government was this.
What is to secure our inalienable rights.
500
Thomas Paine wrote this to help the colonists understand why it was important to become independent of Britain.
What is common sense?
500
Why does Mrs. Coleman put up with you?
What is love?