Important People
Name who gave this quote:
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
Which branch has the power to create laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This act placed a tax on sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
These were the most successful colonies.
This document gained our freedom from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This guy wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the biggest branch of our government.
What is the Executive Branch?
This act placed a law that said all legal and commercial documents needed to be taxed.
What is the Stamp Act?
This colony was founded to give debtors a fresh start.
What is Georgia?
Limited the rights of the kings in England.
What is the Magna Carta?
Who is Samuel Adams?
These government officials serve six year terms.
Who are Senators?
This act forced colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Lord Baltimore founded this colony for all Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Nicknamed the first constitution.
What is The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This man defended the soldiers who were in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
This person can break a tie in the Senate.
Who is the Vice President?
This act passed numerous laws that restricted colonial rights.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
These colonies specialized in lumber and ship building.
What are the New England Colonies?
Laid out the fundamentals of our nation and government.
What is the Constitution?
The freed slave who was shot in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This type of government is run by a small group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
This allowed a British official to search your home or business without proper reason.
What are the Writs of Assistance?
Land that was far from the coasts, and inhabited by Scottish and Irish clans.
What is the Back-country?
The first time a document protected the common good of the people.
What is the Mayflower Compact?