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Revolution!
The Good Ol' Days
A Great Document
By the Numbers
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He was the lead general, from Virginia

Who is George Washington?

100
The final word in the saying "No taxation without..."
What is representation?
100

The branch of government that consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives

What is the Legislative?

100
The number of states needed to ratify the Constitution
What is Nine?
100
A Spanish settlement built to convert Native Americans to Christianity
What is a mission?
200

Lack of a common one made it difficult to pay for goods for the army

What is currency?

200
The Tea Act prompted this group to have a “tea party” in Boston Harbor
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
200

The branch of government that is covered in Article 3 of the Constitution

What is the Judicial Branch?

200
The number of colonists who were killed in the Boston Massacre
What is five?
200
The type of tax levied on goods coming into the colonies
What is external?
300

Two very cold winters were spent here.

What is Valley Forge?

300
This 1765 Act was an internal tax and prompted large-scale protests
What is the Stamp Act?
300

Until it was added to the Constitution, some states refused ratification

What is the Bill of Rights?

300
The number of Continental soldiers who fought in the American Revolution
What is 250,000?
300
People who worked for a number of years to pay for passage to the colonies
What are indentured servants?
400

Two reasons that Native Americans and African Americans tended to side with the British during the Revolutionary War (one reason per group)

What are because they trusted the British to protect their rights more than the American colonists (Native Americans) and because the British offered them freedom if they fought for the British (African Americans).

400
This was the main crop grown in the early years in the southern colonies
What is tobacco?
400

The part of Congress that can vote to impeach a President

What is the House of Representatives?

400
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights
What is ten?
400

The name of the land bridge that the first people crossed from Asia to North America

What is Beringia?

500

The site of the decisive battle where British troops surrendered

What is Yorktown?

500
King George proclaimed this in the proclamation of 1763
What is “Land west of the Appalachians belongs to the Indians”?
500

If the President vetoes a bill but Congress still really wants it to become a law, this needs to happen in both houses of Congress.

What is hold a vote and override the veto with 2/3 of both houses of Congress?

500

The number of the Amendment in the Bill of Rights that protects people from "cruel and unusual punishment" and has been cited as an argument against both torture and the death penalty.

What is the 8th Amendment?

500
Gold or Silver is termed this
What is hard money?