Political Causes of the Revolutionary War
Economic Causes of the Revolutionary War
People of the Revolution
Battles of the Revolutionary War
Government
Rando
100
What put the British in debt that caused the British to start Taxing the Colonists?
French and Indian War
100
What was the first direct tax placed on the colonists?
Stamp Act
100
Who was sent to remove the French from the Ohio River Valley, which started the French and Indian War?
George Washington
100
What was the first shots fired of the Revolutionary War? The shot heard round the world
Lexington and Concord
100
What was the first government called for the colonists after the Revolutionary war was over?
Articles of Confederation
100
What organization helped the colonists communicate with each other before the Revolutionary War?
Committees of Correspondence
200
What told the colonists they could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
200
Whose tea, did the tea act make cheaper?
English
200
Who was the famous Virginian who claimed "give me liberty, or give me death", cause he wanted immediate separation from England?
Patrick Henry
200
What was the turning point of the War?
Saratoga
200
What was the overall problem with the Articles of Confederation?
Either the States had too much power or the Federal Government was too weak?
200
Which organization sent the Declaration of Independence to the King of England?
2nd Continental Congress
300
Who portrayed the Boston Massacre as a more violent event than it was?
Paul Revere
300
What was the policy that had colonists sending raw materials to England and England would sell manufactured goods back to the Colonies?
Mercantilism
300
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
300
Who was the lobbyist for the colonies that was successful at getting the French to help us during the war?
Ben Franklin
300
Who is considered the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
300
What was included in the Constitution that allow it to be changed when needed, even though it was difficult?
Amendments
400
When the British would take away the Colonial assemblies and install their own government, what did that make the colony?
Royal Colony
400
What act passed by the British limited who the colonists could trade with to only the British, causing them to not make as much money as they could by trading with others?
Navigation Acts
400
Whose writings were used in the declaration when he said that if the government violates the peoples natural rights they have a right to revolt and change the government?
John Locke
400
What battle gave the Colonists their independence?
Yorktown
400
Whose presence at the Constitutional Convention gave the colonists trust in the process since many feared the creation of a too strong government?
George Washington
400
What was promised to the Anti Federalists to get them to ratify the Constitution since they feared a too strong federal government?
National Bill of Rights
500
What was passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party?
Coersive/Intolerable Acts
500
What did the Stamp Act Tax?
All printed materials
500
Who wrote Common Sense to convince the colonists they should break away from England? His thoughts were used in the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Paine
500
Where did Washington keep troops together during a harsh winter?
Valley Forge
500
What two gentlemen wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that were used to compile the Bill of Rights?
Thomas Jefferson and George Mason
500
What were open search warrants that allowed the British to search ships without due process
Writs of assistance