Question | Answer |
What year was Jamestown founded? | 1607 |
What year was the signing of the Mayflower Compact? | 1620 |
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed? | 1776 |
What year was the Louisiana Territory purchased? | 1803 |
How long was the civil war? | 1861- 1865
4 years |
Why was the Magna Carta written? | It was written to protect the rights of citizens.
1215 <- the year it was written |
What was the Proclamation of 1763 for? | It prevented colonies from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
What is the Sugar Act about? | It was tax placed on sugar and other products shipped to the colonies. |
What is the Stamp Act about? | All paper documents had to carry a tax stamp |
Who was the leader of the Sons Of Liberty? | Samuel Adams |
What was the Boston Massacre about? | English soldiers fired on colonists they killed 5 people. |
What was the Boston Tea Party about? | The colonists boarded the ships and destroyed British tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor |
What is the Intolerable Act about? | They punished Boston for the Tea Party by closing the Boston Harbor. |
What was the battle of Lexington and Concord? | It was the first battles of the civil war |
What was the battle of Saratoga? | It was the turning point of the war; the French begin to support the colonies in their fight for independence. |
What is Valley Forge? | It was Washington's winter camp |
What was the battle of Yorktown? | It was the last battle of the American Revolution |
What was the Treaty of Paris? | It ended the American Revolution |
What is Unalienable Rights? | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness |
What is the Northwest Ordinance? (1787) | It decided how new territory was settles and application for statehood. |
What was the Constitutional Convention for? (1787) | It created a new constitution to correct the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation |
What was the Great Compromise about? | It combined the New Jersey and Virginia Plans to create a Congress |