Investigating the Past
This is the name for a firsthand source of information that was created during the time period that an event occurred in.
What is a primary source?
This line of latitude is 0 degrees; it circles the earth at its widest point.
What is the Equator?
This is the date and year in which the Declaration of Independence was approved and adopted.
What is July 4, 1776.
In response to British taxes, the colonists agreed to do this- refuse to buy British goods as a form of protest.
What is boycott?
The cost of fighting in this war created the problem of debt that the British government had to deal with.
What is the French and Indian War?
He was named the commander of our nation's first formal army; he then went on to become our country's first president.
Who is George Washington?
This is a source of information that is not created during the time period of an historical event; textbooks, encyclopedias, and documentaries are examples.
What is a secondary source?
This line of longitude is 0 degrees; it separates the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is the name of the gathering of delegates in Philadelphia at which the Declaration of Independence was written and approved.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What is the name of the famous protest group who organized opposition to the British and government taxation?
What is the Sons of Liberty?
What is the Stamp Act?
He was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence. He went on to be our nation's third president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Archaeologists and historians study these man-made or "man-shaped" objects to learn about the lives of the people who made them and the time period they lived in.
What are artifacts?
This line on a map is used to determine the calendar date in in places around the globe.
What is the International Dateline?
These were considered the two MAIN PURPOSES of the Declaration of Independence.
What is a "break-up" letter (with Britain) and a "birth announcement" that the colonies were now an independent country called "the United States of America"?
An engraving of the Boston Massacre was used as this in order to persuade people throughout the 13 Colonies that the British were "murderers" and resisting them was in the best interest of the colonies.
What is propaganda?
This unpopular act passed by the British led to the formation of this protest group.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This Massachusetts lawyer who defended the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre later became the second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
This is the acronym for the organization that creates the rules students must follow in writing research papers for history classes.
What is MLA?
This measures the distance of a place on earth in relation to the Equator.
What is latitude?
The ideas influencing the writers of the Declaration of Independence came out of this intellectual movement in Europe in which people questioned the laws of nature and the role of government.
What is the Enlightenment?
Delegates from the colonies met in Philadelphia at this gathering to support Massachusetts and decide how the colonies would respond to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This event was the effect of the increasing tension between the colonists and the British soldiers sent to maintain order and put down protests in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
He was a famous leader of the Sons of Liberty and a cousin of John Adams; he signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This is the commonly used name for a bibliography.
What is a works cited page?
This measures the distance of a place in relation to the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
According to the philosopher John Locke, all people were born with "natural rights" regardless of their social class. "Natural rights" are the rights to these three things.
What are life, liberty, and property?
These acts were the last straw for the colonists! They punished Boston for the loss of tea in the Boston Tea Part by closing its port, dissolving its government, and forcing colonists to provide quarter for British soldiers in their homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
In response to the increasing disorder caused by protests in Boston, the British government sent these to Boston in an order to restore peace; it ended up make the tensions in Boston even worse!
What are British soldiers?
He was a famous propaganda writer who wrote penned and published the pamphlet "Common Sense"; He called King George III the "Royal Brute" and made the argument for rejecting monarchy and supporting independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?