People
What is the Great Awakening?
The spiritual revival that began in New England and spread throughout the colonies
Whom did the French ask to help them fight against the colonists in the French and Indian War?
The Native Americans
What was the tax colonists had to pay on documents?
The Stamp Act
What was the meeting in which colonial representatives wrote down a declaration of rights Americans should have?
The First Continental Congress
There are how many original colonies?
13
Most powerful voice of the Great Awakening?
George Whitefield
Who fought alongside the British in the French and Indian War?
the colonists
Explain taxation without representation
The colonists were forced to pay taxes without a government representative to defend the colonists' interests
Patriots who were trained to be ready to fight as a minutes's notice
Minutemen
A group of patriots who worked to support the rights of colonists
Sons of Liberty
Who said "give me liberty or give me death?"
Patrick Henry
Who thought the French and Indian War should be fought the same way armies fought in Europe?
General Braddock
What do we call the refusal to use or buy certain products?
boycott
Meeting in which the American Colonies chose to declare their independence from England
Second Continental Congress
Decisions made by British to punish the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party, including using a blockade on the Boston Harbor
The Intolerable Acts
Colonists who wanted Americans to remain under England's rule
Loyalists
After the French and Indian War, the British took control of what land?
All the land east of the Mississippi River
Event that was started with a snowball and caused the death of 5 citizens of Boston at the hands of the British soldiers
The Boston Massacre
During the Second Continental Congress, who was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?
George Washington
What was signed to end the French and Indian War?
President of the Second Continental Congress
John Hancock
Thought of themselves as Americans instead of English citizens.
Event in which the Sons of Liberty threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor
The Boston Tea Party
1775
What is the shot heard round the world?
The sound of a gunshot that was the beginning of the American War for Independence or the Revolutionary War