American Revolution

Question 1

Sugar Act

Answer 1

A law passed by Parliament to try to raise money to pay for the French and Indian War

Question 2

Stamp Act

Answer 2

A law passed by Parliament to make colonists buy a stamp to place on many items such as wills and newspapers

Question 3

Boston Massacre

Answer 3

A conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists were killed

Question 4

Boston Tea Party

Answer 4

A protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor

Question 5

John Locke

Answer 5

English philosopher who believed people had natural rights to life, liberty, and property

Question 6

Common Sense

Answer 6

Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that attacked monarchy

Question 7

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

Main author of the Declaration of Independence

Question 8

Declaration of Indpendence

Answer 8

A document that siad the United Staes was an independent nation

Question 9

loyalists

Answer 9

Colonist who were loyal to Britain

Question 10

Patriots

Answer 10

Colonists who wanted indedepence from Britian

Question 11

Treaty of Paris

Answer 11

The treaty that officially ended the American Revolution in 1781.