an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
What is the Stamp Act?
100
a punitive ban that forbids relations with certain groups, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods
What is boycott?
100
On what day (and year) did the United States declare independence from Great Britain?
What is July 4, 1776?
100
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Give two reasons why people moved to the New World
What is religious freedom, economic opportunity, political freedom, etc?
200
a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The French and Indian War is also known as (in Europe)
What is the Seven Years War?
200
What are the four parts of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the preamble, discussion of rights, list of grievances, and declaring independence!
200
The head Colonial General in the conflict that became the Revolutionary War
What is George Washington?
300
refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.
What is Salutary Neglect?
300
Put in chronological order:
King George III coming to power
the Albany Plan
the Declaration of Independence
the end of the French and Indian War
What is Albany Plan, King George III, the end of the French and Indian War, the DOI
300
Document the first Continental Congress sent to King George III claiming they were still loyal to the crown and wanted peace
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
300
What are our "unalienable rights"?
What is Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?
300
The first signer of the DOI who signed his name really REALLY large, because he wanted King George III to see it from across the "pond"
What is John Hancock?
400
What did the Proclamation of 1763 say?
What is colonists can't move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
400
What did the Townsend Acts tax?
What is glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea?
400
"The Shot Heard Round the World" refers to what?
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
400
What state abstained from declaring independence?
What is New York?
400
Man who proposed the Declaration of Independence
What is Richard Henry Lee?
500
First time 8 of the colonies met in 1754 to discuss common problems.
What is the Albany Conference (the Albany Plan)?
500
Which Act/Group of Acts closed the Boston Harbor in response to the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Coercive/Intolerable Acts (specifically, the Boston Port Act)?
500
Name 3 documents the Magna Carta inspired.
What is the DOI, US Constitution, English Bill of Rights, etc.
500
Which philosophe did TJ (almost) plagarize when writing the DOI, specifically when talking about rights?
What is John Locke (Life, Liberty and pursuit of happiness v. pursuit of property).