Essential Historical Figures
An American president and the commander of the continental army.
Who is George Washington?
The people who didn't support the country's independence of Great Britain.
Who are the Loyalists?
Rights that all humans are born with.
What are natural rights?
The protest where a drinkable fluid popular at the time was dumped into water.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Sugar Act?
One of the first few presidents of America that was one of the authors of a well known document from history.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The people who stayed loyal to America itself and supported it's actions.
The way a national government establishes itself and it's own power.
What is the political system?
What is the Treaty Of Paris?
The act that required citizens to house people who work for the government, now protected by the 3rd amendment.
What is the Quartering Act?
Not an American figure, and was a leader often painted as an enemy.
Who is King George III?
To rule over a nation separately and independently.
Actions, laws & beliefs that don't just benefit specific individuals but all or most of the population of a city or nation.
What is the common good?
The document that seperated America from Britain.
What is the Declaration Of Independence?
The group of laws passed after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Marking territory in another location you've not been to before.
What is Colonization?
A system where the power is from the people who can make decisions and have a voice.
What is a democratic government?
The conflict over Britain and France over territory in America.
What was the French And Indian War?
The act that passed taxes on multiple items such as glass, lead, paint and paper.
What is the townshed act?
A person that organized colonial resistance.
Who is Samuel Adams?
A representative body formed by colonies to express their resistance to British rule
What is Continental Congress?
A system where the choices and the power is in the hands of a few leaders and the people have little voice.
What is an authoritarian government?
The meeting that addressed British actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
The act that made people pay taxes on any printed material.
What is the stamp act?