Let's Catch a Cab 1
Mercy Otis Warren
What event was a religious revival that tried to get back an inner passion for God back in the colonists that had sermons that appealed to the heart and drew large crowds and talked about Heaven and Hell?
The Great Awakening
At what age would boys leave their families to become apprentices and work for someone to teach them a trade?
11
France and England or Britain
What group met in Philadephia to talk about their relationship with Great Britain and to eventually create a Declaration of Independence?
The First Continental Congress
A leader of the Sons of Liberty and the resistance to the British in Boston
Samuel Adams
What act was made to stop illegal trading between the colonists and the French and other countries? Also set up a court for people who smuggled in goods....
Sugar Act
What book were children taught in early colonial schools?
The Bible
What was the name of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War?
The Treaty of Paris
The first person thought to have been killed in the Boston Massacre was thought to have been an African or African and Native American mixed descent. What was his name?
Crispus Attucks
George Washington
What act started having colonists quartering soldiers in their homes and taxed the colonists as well
The Townshend Acts
John Locke came up with what theory, one that says the government should work for the people and if it does not, then the people can throw it out.
Social Contract Theory
The Proclamation of 1763 said that the colonists could not move west of what geographical feature?
The Appalachian Mountains
Finish the saying that became very popular in the colonies, “No ______________________ without ___________________________.”
No taxation without representation
Fiery preacher during the Great Awakening, he held sermons that talked about Heaven and Hell.
Jonathon Edwards
What government act told the colonists that they could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War?
The Proclamation of 1763
Name two jobs that women were in charge of in early colonial times....
African women helped farm cash crops such as tobacco and indigo
White women bartered(traded) goods, cooked, churned butter, made soap for candles, spun fibers, wove cloth, and sowed and knitted clothes, tended garden, and looked after farm animals
What was the name of the Native American chief that sided with the French and struck back at the British and had a war named after him?
Chief Pontiac
The Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party was an attempt to save what British company that was based in the Caribbean?
The British East India Company
Person whos famous quote is "Give me Liberty, or give me death." He told the King to repeal his tax or face a mutiny.
Patrick Henry
What movement had people using science to explain what was going on in the world? One important figure Benjamin Franklin tested an electric experiment during this time.
The Enlightenment
High Rank- Large landowners, church and government officials, merchant
Upper Middle- Small farmers, tradespeople
Lower Middle- Renters and unskilled workers
Low- Indentured servants and slaves
What were the two big effects of the French and Indian War that involved Britain and the colonies?
The British taxed the colonists to pay for the war and told them they could not move West.
Who did the 50 colonists dress up as to dump the tea in the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party.... (has to be specific)
Mohawk Indians