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Famous People British Acts Independence Government New Republic
Virginian famous for his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” response to the
Coercive Acts.
Who is Patrick Henry?
Massachusetts “radical” who led the Sons of Liberty and sent circular letters to urge other
colonists to protest
Who is Sam Adams?
British minister and author of a series of revenue acts,
famously, the Stamp Act.
Who is George Grenville?
Proposed the Albany Plan of Union to create a colonial defense against the French
Who is Ben Franklin?
British Prime Minister who led the British to victory in the
French and Indian War
Who is William Pitt?
A colonial wide series of protests occurred in response to this 1765 revenue act. The act was repealed the next year after an effective boycott of
British goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
Action taken by King George in 1763 in response to
Pontiac’s War that angered colonists who wanted to
move into the Ohio Valley.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
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An act that put import duties on common colonial needs including glass, lead, paint,
and tea.
What are the Townshend Duties?
A series of acts designed to punish Boston for the “tea
party”, called the “Intolerable Acts” by the
Colonists
What are the Coercive Acts?
Act that Americans saw as a direct attack because it took
away lands along the Ohio River and recognized Catholicism as
acceptable in that region.
What is the Quebec Act?
Philosophy that is the basis of the Declaration of
Independence
What is John Locke’s Enlightenment or Natural Rights
philosophy?
Name of a petition sent by the Second Continental
Congress to try and avoid war with England.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
Who is Thomas Paine and what is Common Sense?
Critical American victory that helped secure a Treaty
of Alliance with France.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
Name of the original national government
designed intentionally to be a weak one
.What are the Articles
of Confederation?
Name of the author and his pamphlet that helped
convince Americans that independence was desirable.
Who is Thomas Paine and what is Common Sense?
What is a bill of rights?
Most significant peacetime accomplishment of the first Articles of Confederation
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Name of violent incident that led to nationalists’ call for a
constitutional convention.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Groups of Americans who fought over the ratification
of the Constitution
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
Name of the compromise that created a bicameral national legislature as a compromise
between the large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
Proposed the “Grand Design” to put America on a firm
financial footing.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Washington cabinet member who opposed a national bank because he believed it to be an unconstitutional act.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Treaty that was a failed attempt by Washington to
work out disputes with England.
What is Jay’s Treaty?
Western Pennsylvania farmers tarred and feathered US tax
collectors
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Diplomatic incident that led to what Jefferson called a “reign of witches” under the Alien
and Sedition Acts.
What is the XYZ affair?
Name given by historians to the election of Thomas Jefferson to the
presidency.
What is the Peaceful Revolution of 1800?
