This city was the birth place of The First Continental Congress.
What is Philadelphia?
100
This act put taxes on foreign sugar. And to stop the smuggling of it, the colonists were made aware that if they were caught, they would be tried without a jury.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
John Adams was a delegate from this New England colony.
What is Massachusetts?
100
This document consists of the phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident......," by Ben Franklin.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
200
The First Continental Congress was called in response to these acts.
What are the Intolerable acts?
200
These acts were meant, by the British, to punish the colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
200
This person was persuaded by John Adams to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This old English document heavily influenced the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Massachusetts Body of Liberties.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
This is the year that The First Continental Congress held their first meeting.
What is 1774?
300
This act said that colonist were not allowed to move westward into Native American territory.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?
300
This was the position that George Washington was appointed to help with Massachusetts militia's.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
300
This declaration in Massachusetts called a repeal to the Intolerable Acts, took military actions and boycotted Great Britain.
What is The Suffolk Resolves?
400
This was the only colony of the thirteen colonies to not have delegates attend The First Continental Congress.
What is Georgia?
400
The Townsend Acts put a tax on tea, glass, and this other everyday item.
What is paper?
400
This petition was drafted by John Dickinson and was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British King.
What is The Olive Branch Petition?
400
This document was originally published in 1641 containing 100 liberties intended for use as guidance for the General Court of the time.
What is the Massachusetts Body of Liberties?
500
This was the overall goal of The First Continental Congress.
What was to determine how the colonies should react to the threat of their rights and liberties?
500
This act took representation away from its people and did not allow the colonies to expand past the Ohio River Valley.
What is the Quebec Act?
500
These three people were the committee appointed for writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson?
500
This document asked to restore colonial rights and said parliament could regulate commerce.