Early People & Sources
A type of source that includes diaries, letters, and journal entries
What is a Primary Source?
This religious group settled in Pennsylvania to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Quakers?
This British law placed a tax on all paper products in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
These two towns mark the beginning of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The governing body colonists were denied admission to.
What is Parliament?
What is the Ice Age?
These Europeans were the first to establish a colony in what is now New York State.
Who were the Dutch?
A phrase that explains why colonists believed British taxes were unfair
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This protest involved the Sons of Liberty throwing tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The right colonists believed was violated when they were denied a voice/say in government.
What is the right to representation?
The first people migrated to North America from this continent
What is Asia?
This cash crop helped the Jamestown colony survive and become successful.
What is tobacco?
This governing body of Great Britain passed many laws restricting the colonists.
What is Parliament?
This violent event occurred on King Street when British soldiers fired at colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The soldiers who are shown firing at colonists in Paul Revere’s engraving.
Who are the British soldiers (Redcoats)?
Places where the early peoples migrated to after North America
What are Canada, Central America, and South America?
This major event led to new diseases, loss of Native American land, and expansion of the slave trade.
What is European exploration of the Americas?
This British law angered colonists by limiting their ability to move west.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This patriot created an engraving that increased colonial anger after the Boston Massacre.
Who is Paul Revere?
The effect of Paul Revere’s engraving "The Bloody Massacre in King-Street" on colonists.
(*Think how did they react after seeing this image)
What is it increased anger toward the British?
This theory explains how people first reached the Americas thousands of years ago.
What is migration from Asia over a land bridge?
One major negative effect European exploration had on Native Americans.
What is the spread of diseases that killed many Native Americans?
The reason the Patriots opposed the Stamp Act.
What is no taxation without representation?
Two events before 1775 that increased colonial anger toward Britain.
What are the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party?
(also acceptable: Boston Massacre, British troops in Boston)
Selection from The Stamp Act (1765)
“And…upon every pack of playing cards…which shall be sold or used within the colonies…the sum of one shilling.
And for every pair of…dice, the sum of ten shillings.
And it is hereby further enacted..that…any person or persons within any of the…colonies who carry, expose to sale any newspaper, book, pamphlet, or paper not stamped or marked…shall for every such offence, forfeit the sum of forty shillings.”
What is the total fine for carrying two unstamped sheets of paper under the Stamp Act?
80 shillings