Vocab Primary Sources Them Dirty Taxes Rising Tensions Military Potpourri
100
What is a militia?
This is a group of citizens soldiers
100
Who is Paul Revere?
The first piece of American propaganda was created by this person following the Boston Massacre.
100
What is the Sugar Act (1764)?
This act of parliament counterintuitively both angered colonists and lowered the price of sugar.
100
What is Lexington?
The tensions between colonists and British redcoats spilled over at this place, location of the "shot heard round the world."
100
Who is George Washington?
This person was appointed head of the Continental Army.
200
What is prohibit?
When you prevent something, you do this to it.
200
What is Common Sense?
Authored by Thomas Paine, this document neatly quipped: " there is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."
200
What are paper goods?
The Stamp Act taxed these.
200
What is Massachusetts?
This New England colony was home to much of the drama leading up to the Revolutionary War.
200
Who is William Prescott?
William Prescott is supposed to have commanded "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at this battle near Boston.
300
What are volunteers?
Those who willingly step forward are called this.
300
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This, the original governing document of the United States, formed a "firm league of friendship" among the states.
300
What are glass, paint, lead, tea, and/or paper?
Identify four things were taxed by the Townshend Acts (1767).
300
What is Virginia?
George Washington was from this colony - the most populous of the Thirteen Colonies.
300
Who is Benedict Arnold?
This famous turncoat (traitor) was an early leader for the colonists before exchanging information on West Point for nearly a million dollars and fleeing to Britain.
400
What is cowering?
This word is a synonym for crouching.
400
What is natural rights?
The opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence assert that "these" exist, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
400
What is the Quebec Act (1774)?
This part of the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts gave away land in the Ohio River Valley that colonists considered to be theirs.
400
Who are the Mohawks?
During the Boston Tea Party, members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans from this tribe.
400
What is the (Second) Continental Congress?
This group of leaders authorized the Olive Branch Petition.
500
What is usurpation?
This is the illegal seizure or occupation of a throne or seat of authority.
500
What is (constitutional) monarchy?
The authors of the Articles of Confederation were attempting to distance the USA's government from what type of government?
500
What is the the Declaratory Act?
As a response to repealing the Stamp Act due to the protests of the colonies, British Parliament passed this act which gave them the right to pass any tax they please.
500
What is virtual representation?
When colonists campaigned vigorously for representation in Parliament, Parliament responded by claiming that all British citizens had this type of representation.
500
What is tarred-and-feathered?
The old man accused of being a loyalist within Barry Denenburg's novel, The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary Patriot, had this public punishment done to him.






Spirit of Independence - Ch 5

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