Tobacco
The reason the Pilgrims and Puritans came to America.
What was for religious freedom?
Fill in the blank. Great Britain needed money to pay for the _______ after the ________ and Indian War.
What is debt and French?
Forced to work against their will for the rest of their life.
What were slaves?
Also known as congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
He was the leader of the Patriot Army and later became the President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
The reason people followed the animals across the Beringia Land Bridge.
What is hunting?
The colonies were forced to pay this to help pay for the war.
What were taxes?
Volunteered to work for someone for an amount of time.
What were indentured servants?
Interpret laws and make sure the laws agree with the constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
American Indians from the Great Plains lived on the grass plains in the middle of North
America and relied on these animals for food and natural resources.
What are bison and buffalo?
This was a popular cry in the colonies in response to having to pay taxes to help pay for the war.
What was "No taxation without representation"?
People chosen by voters to speak and make laws for them.
What were representatives?
The job of the Legislative Branch.
What is to make laws.
The man who warned the colonists that the British were coming to arrest Sons of Liberty leaders and take colonists weapons from them.
Who was Paul Revere?
One reason Jamestown was started by the British.
What was to make money?
The colonies responded with this because of taxation.
What was boycotting British Goods?
An agreement made by the Pilgrims to make and obey their own laws.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
It is the job of the Executive Branch of government to do this.
What is enforce the laws and control the armed forces?
How Britain punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Most historians believe that the first people that migrated to America did so by walking across this bridge.
Soldiers fired on a crowd in Boston and killed 5 colonists.
What was the Boston Massacre?
A special legislative body created in the Virginia colony for the purpose of passing laws and maintaining order.
What was the House of Burgesses?
A group of elected officials from each state that is based on the population of their state.
What is The House of Representatives?
The event in Boston that happened because of the tax on their favorite beverage.
What was the Boston Tea Party?