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Who was chosen to be commander in chief of the
Continental Army?
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Who was George Washington?
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Who headed the committee that wrote the Articles
of Confederation?
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Who was John Dickinson?
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The main author of the Declaration of
Independence.
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Who was Thomas Jefferson?
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This person was said to have planned the Boston
Tea Party.
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Who was Samuel Adams?
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This person called for a resolution in the Second
Continental Congress for independence from
Britain.
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Who was Richard Henry Lee?
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When did the British realize that fighting the
colonists would not be easy?
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What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
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Why were the battles at Lexington and Concord
important?
18
What was they marked the beginning of the
American Revolution.
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What did the British government do to help pay
the costs of the French and Indian War?
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What is it passed new tax laws for the colonies.
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How did the Battle of Bunker Hill change
Britains view of the colonists?
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What is it showed the British that the colonists
would not be easily defeated.
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In what year did the French and Indian War start?
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What is 1754?
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What happened on July 4, 1776?
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What is Congress voted to accept the Declaration
of Independence.
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What was the first plan of government for the
United States called?
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
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What is one effect that the Articles of
Confederation had on the new nation?
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What is the states were held together as a nation
during the Revolutionary War.
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This was the first person to sign the Declaration
of Independence.
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Who was John Hancock?
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How many main parts are in the Declaration of
Independence?
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What are four main parts?
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A plan for spending money
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What is a budget?
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To refuse to buy
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What is boycott?
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Freedom to govern on ones own.
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What is independence?
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A formal agreement among groups or individuals.
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What is an alliance?
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The act of speaking or acting for someone else.
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What is representation?
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How did many colonists protest the taxes placed
on British goods?
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What is they refused to buy British goods?
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How did the Committees of Correspondence help the
colonists fight British rule?
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What is they spread information quickly?
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Many colonists said that Parliament could not tax
them because the colonists had no ________, or
voice.
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What is representation?
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The First Continental Congress decided to send a
______ to the king, stating the colonists rights.
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What is a petition?
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At Breeds Hill, colonists fired at British
soldiers from defenses called ________.
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What are earthworks?
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Why did the First Continental Congress meet in
1774?
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What is it met to decide how to respond to
British policies and actions.
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What was the Proclamation of 1763?
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What is it was a British announcement that set
aside lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for
Native Americans.
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The act of working against ones own government.
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What is treason?
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This person came up with the Join or Die
cartoon.
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Who was Benjamin Franklin?
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In its signed petition to the king, which rights
did the First Continental Congress claim
colonists had?
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What is the right to life, liberty, right to
assemble, right to trial by jury.
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Final Jeopardy
Make your wager
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I told the Second Continental Congress that the
13 colonies no longer owed loyalty to the British
king.
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Who was Richard Henry Lee?