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Revolution!
The Good Ol' Days
A Great Document
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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
The British stopped this during the war, necessitating new industries in the U.S.
What are imports and exports? (or trade)
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
Betrayal of one’s government
What is treason?
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
This is the Preamble to the Constitution
What is "We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America."
500
The number of African Americans who served in the Continental Army
What is 5,000?
500
Gold or Silver is termed this
What is hard money?