People
He led assault on Fort Duquesne in the Ohio River Valley on behalf of the British before the American Revolution
George Washington
The British demand that colonists house and feed soldiers
Quartering Act of 1774
Colonist reaction to Parliament taxes
No taxation without representation
Home to the "Massacre", John Adams, Paul Revere, and a bunch of other rable rousers.
Boston
In what way was the French and Indian War a Cause of the American Revolution?
British debt to be paid by taxing the colonies
He hated slavery and blamed it on King George III, but had more than 600 himself.
Thomas Jefferson
The British demand that colonist pay a tax on legal documents
The Stamp Act
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive, it is the right of the People to...
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
The City of Brotherly Love; also the home of the First and Second Continental Congress
Philadelphia
A system of trade in which the mother country uses the colonies for her benefit
Mercantilism
He defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre; 2nd President of the United States
John Adams
5 people were shot in this fight provoked by colonists.
The Boston Massacre
"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
"that all men are created equal"
Home of Thomas Jefferson and Monticello
Virginia
Trade between the colonies, Europe and Africa
Triangle Trade
Pushed the Quakers of Pennsylvania to support the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin
Minutemen rush out to warn colonists of British raid on arms
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
"...in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these United Colonies are and of right ought to be...
Free."
New York
The British gained these places in the 7-year or French and Indian War. Name at least 3 to win.
Canada; Islands in the Caribbean, the Ohio River Valley, Florida
Wrote more than 1,100 letters to her best friend; advised him to "remember the ladies."
Abigail Adams
Parliament closed ports, banned self government in Massachusetts and brought more soldiers to Boston in reaction to this.
The Boston Tea Party
A common slogan found on colonial flags
Join or Die
These places certainly would not have signed the Declaration of Independence if Jefferson included this original paragraph: "He (the king) has waged a cruel war against human nature itself...captivating and carrying them off into slavery."
The South (South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia)
Jefferson based his famous phrase "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" on the writings of this famous man of the Enlightenment, whose original phrase was "life, liberty, health, and property." Who is...
John Locke.