Social Studies Checkpoint 1

Great Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing the ______ and closing the Boston Harbor

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

The treaty that ended the French and Indian war between France and England was the ______

Treaty of Paris 1763

House of Burgesses

____ was the first from of representative government that existed in the colonies

Tomas Paine was an American Revolutionary hero who inspired colonists to support the war through writings such as _______

_____ Common Sense and Crisis

Marques de Lafayette ________

_____ convinced France to join the fight against the British during the American Revolution

Treaty of Paris 1783 ________

_____ ended the Revolutionary War

Paul Revere's ____ engraving _____ gain support for the patriots desire for independence

_____ goal in the _____ of the Bloody Massacre was in hopes to _____

in response to the British East India Tea Company being able to import certain goods like Tea without paying Taxes _____

_____ the Sons of Liberty dumped over 300 cases of tea into the Boston harbor - later know as the Boston Tea Party

George Washington was the ____ during the American Revolution

______ Commander of the Continental Army ______

Loyalists _______

______ believed that American colonists are British subjects and therefore must obey British government

Quartering Act ______

______ was a law that forced colonists to House British Soldier

Sugar Act ____

______ was a tax on molasses, silk and wine

Townsend Acts ______

______ were a tax on goods from Britian such as paper, glass ,lead and tea

The fundamental idea that the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence both uphold is ______

_______ Government by the people

Colonists wanted to settle the ____ in the mid-1700s because the area was_____

_______ Ohio River Valley ______ rich in fertile soil for growing crops, forests, and wild animals

A quote from ______ which was read to George Washington's troops before the battle of Trenton on Christmas Day describes patriots who half-heartedly support the war when it is convenient for them to do so

_______ The Crisis _______

Stamp Act ______

_______ tax on papers with the King' s stamp such a newspaper and legal documents

The main author of the Declaration of Independence was ____________

________ Tomas Jefferson