History17-4
By 1757 Britain controlled ___ English colonies on the eastern coast of the present United States.
13
The ________ guaranteed freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to bear arms, and trial by jury.
Bill of Rights
On July 4, 1776, The second Continental Congress approved of the ________.
Declaration of Independence
The proposed Constitution created a ______ system, in which the national and state governments shared power.
Federal
The united Kingdom of ____ came into existence in 1707, when the government of England and Scotland were united.
Great Britain
Fighting finally erupted between colonist and the British army in April 1775 in ____ and ____.
Lexington, Concord
In 1765 Parliament imposed the ____, which required legal documents to carry a stamp showing that tax had been paid to _____
Stamp act, Britain
The _______, signed in 1783, recognized the ______ of the American colonies and granted American control of territory to the ______ river.
Treaty of Paris, independence, Mississippi
When General Cornwallis was forced to surrender to the American and French forces at ____, the British decided to end the war.
Yorktown
After the Seven Years War, British leader wanted to get new _____ from the colonies.
revenues