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Slavery
English Civil War
French and Indian War
American Revolution
Who Am I?
100
This commodity (good) was traded for slaves by Americans in Africa.
What is rum?
100
This group wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church of all Catholic rituals and reminders.
Who are the Puritans?
100
The geographic land area that was the source of the conflict between France and England.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
100
This law by the British angered American settlers who wanted to continue moving west even with Indian troubles.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
I am a philosopher who influenced Thomas Jefferson with my belief in natural rights such as life, liberty, and pursuit of property.
Who is John Locke?
200
Most African Americans can trace their ancestry to this part of Africa.
What is west Africa?
200
Conflict occurred between the king and Parliament over his belief in this doctrine.
What is the divine right to rule?
200
To ensure that the Iroquois sided with the Americans and English, Ben Franklin attended a conference in New York. In his Albany Plan of Union, he suggested that Americans come together and work toward a common cause in a famous cartoon sending this message.
What is "join or die"?
200
This tax, a direct tax, was paid by everyone, and it was placed on playing cards, wills, licenses, and mail.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
My ideas were borrowed by political leaders in America when they wrote the Constitution creating separation of powers and checks and balances.
Who is Baron Montesqueieu?
300
The most horrible part of the trip for a slave.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Supporters of the king, the clergy and large landowners, were called this nickname.
What are Cavaliers?
300
This American was required to buid Ft. Necessity after he attacked the French that he had delivered a letter to asking that they leave their fort at Duquesne.
Who is George Washington?
300
Americans responded to the Stamp Act by meeting together at the Stamp Act Congress where they all agreed to this measure to protest British actions.
What are boycotts?
300
I led the Sons of Liberty protest group in Massachusetts, the Boston Tea Party, and eventually I would be an outspoken opponent of the Constitution because I feared too much power in the hands of the federal government.
Who is Sam Adams?
400
In the beginning, most slaves were taken from Africa to work on these type of plantations in the Caribbean, Brazil, and South America.
What are sugar plantations?
400
The commonwealth only lasted a short time in England and was followed by the return to the throne by Charles II in this period of English history.
What is the Restoration?
400
This battle was won by the British when British general James Wolfe noted washing women at the banks of the St. Lawrence River, followed them, finding a path up the cliff face enabling him to attack the next day.
What is Quebec?
400
This event led to the Intolerable/Coercive Acts that closed the port of Boston.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
I was the French ambassador from the colonies and convinced them to help the Americans with $54 million in aid and naval ships.
Who is Ben Franklin?
500
A former slave who wrote a narrative of his kidnapping in Africa, his trip to America on the ship, and the condition of his slavery.
Who is Oladauh Equiano?
500
As a result of the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights of 1689 gauranteed the people certain rights that are echoed in the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.
What is the right to a trial by jury, bail, and search and seizure protections.
500
The British gained these lands in the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
What are all lands east of the Mississippi River and Canada?
500
This author warned Americans about entanglements with Europeans economically, and stated that monarchy was a bad form of government in his pamphlet "Common Sense".
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
I was the battle that ended the Revolution where the end came because the British forces were trapped by land by Washington and the American army and by sea by a French naval victory over the British navy.
What is Yorktown?