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This English settlement in Virginia was founded in 1607. It was the first "city" founded
Where is Jamestown?
Shootings by British soldiers that killed five colonists
What is the Boston Massacre?
This man is the Virginian who commanded the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
An uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes in 1676; ended with Jamestown being burned in protest
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Name one reason that Parliament raised taxes:
Parliament raised taxes to help pay for a British army to protect the colonists against American Indian attacks.
This city hosted the murder of five colonists from British soldiers, as well as a protest in which 300 barrels of tea were unloaded into the harbor.
Where is Boston?
A protest in which colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped over 340 tea chests from British ships into Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Massacre?
This woman was a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas?
An act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
How did colonists respond to British taxes?
They refused to buy British goods in hope that Parliament would end the new taxes.
This was the sight of a battle, in which the British won, but it proved that the colonists could fight.
Where is Bunker Hill?
The first shot of the Revolutionary War, the "shot heard around the world."
What is the Battle of Concord?
This was the main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
These were laws to control slaves; many were often tortured, treated with great cruelty, and murdered
What were the Slave Codes?
What did the Townshend Acts do?
They charged taxes on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
This was the place of a battle won by the Patriots against Hessian mercenaries
Where is Trenton?
These laws were passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What were the intolerable acts?
These people were a Separatist group that cut all ties with the Church of England and left England to escape persecution.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This man was a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony
Who was William Penn?
Why did the jury for the Boston Massacre find some of the troops not guilty?
The court was made up of British jurors.
This was the place of a great victory for the Patriots in which British general John Burgyone surrendered his entire army to American general Horatio Gates.
Where is Saratoga?
These two countries allied with the Patriots and were enemies of the British.
Who were France and Spain?
These were members of the local militia who were ready to fight at a minutes notice
Who were the minutemen?
The system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa; thousands of slaves died
What is the Triangular Trade?
What did the delegates at the First Continental Congress debate?
The delegates debated whether violence was avoidable.
This is the sight of the last major battle of the American revolution, won by the Patriots.
Where is Yorktown?
These people were a Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England; believed they had a sacred agreement with God to build a Christian colony.
Who were the Puritans?
This is the religious movement in the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
Why did the British soldiers go to Concord?
A British general sent soldiers to destroy a stockpile of weapons they thought were there.
This is the document that formally announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These were people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
Who are immigrants?
This is the movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society
What is Enlightenment?
At the Second Continental Congress, delegates signed the Olive Branch Petition asking King George III to make peace. What was his response to the petition?
He would not consider it.
This is the peace agreement in which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
These were colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys
Who were indentured servants?
This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items
What is the Stamp Act?
What was the battle fought near Breed’s Hill called?
The Battle of Bunker Hill.
This is a 47-page pamphlet that argued against British rule over America
What is Common Sense?
These were colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain
Who were the loyalists?
This act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea directly to the colonists
What is the Tea Act?
Why was Common Sense so popular?
It argued that citizens, not kings, should pass laws and made a strong case for political freedom, economic freedom, and the right to military self-defense.
This is a legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
These were the colonists who chose to fight for independence from Britain
Who were the Patriots?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
Why did Thomas Jefferson think the colonies should not obey King George III?
Thomas Jefferson believed that King George III had trampled on the colonists rights with unfair laws and meddled in colonial governments.
These were British soldiers wearing red uniforms
Who were the Redcoats?
The gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies in America
What did some families experience during the Revolutionary War?
Some were Patriots (those who supported the war/independence) and some were Loyalists (those who did not support the war/supported the British). Because of this, some families were separated.
This man was the author of Common Sense who wrote that citizens, not monarchs, should make laws
Who was Thomas Paine?
This is the army created by the Second Continental Congress to carry out the fight against the British
What is the Continental Army?
Name two groups who had no rights under the Declaration of Independence:
women and slaves.
These were foreign soldiers who fought not out of loyalty, but for pay
Who were mercenaries?
This was the meeting of delegates from 12 colonies in Philadelphia in May 1775
Second Continental Congress
How did women serve in the war effort?
They served by helping supply the army and serving as messengers, nurses, and spies.
She was a Puritan woman who disagreed on religious ideas, was tried, and forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
Why would France and Spain help the Patriots during the American Revolution?
They were enemies of Britain, therefore, they were automatically allies to the colonies.
This man was a philosopher who thought that people had natural rights
Who was John Locke?
Why did the British move the war to the South?
There were large groups of Loyalists in the South.