Quiz Answers...

1. False

2. True

3. Angry

4. People of Boston should pay for tea.

5. Overland

6. Georgia

7. Cut off trade with England.

Scores:

1 Wrong -86%

2 Wrong- 72%

3 Wrong- 58%

4 Wrong- 44%

5 Wrong- 30%

6 and more- FAIL

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1. All Americans agreed that the Boston Tea Party was fair.

True False

2. Some Boston businessmen agreed to pay for the tea that was lost in the Boston Harbor.

a.True

b .False

3. The King of England was with the Americans after the Boston Tea Party

a.Happy

b. Angry

4. The Intolerable Acts said all of the following except:

The people of Boston must pay for the tea.
The Americans must house the British soldiers.
The people of Boston had to go to church each Sunday.
The people of Boston could not hold town meetings.

5. Since food could not be shipped into Boston, other colonies sent food to them .

A. By air

B. By overland

6. The First Continental Congress had representatives from all colonies except __________.


7. The First Continental Congress decided to do which of the following:

a. Cut off trade with England.
b. Fight the King of England.
c. Throw the soldiers out of the American homes.
d. Force the King to repeal the Intolerable Acts.

Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.


They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.

That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,

and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved;

and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,

and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
The signers of the Declaration represented the new States as follows:

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:

John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:

Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:

Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:

William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:

Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:

Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:

Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:

Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:

George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:

William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:

Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton


Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Lexington and Concord Battle

Was a battle that was made in April 19, 1775. 73 people were killed in that time. Were first military engagements of the American Revolution War. Gage was the one who send these troops to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock because they wanted to govern by their own. They went to Concord and seized weapons. Then Paul Revere and the local patriots ran off the troops back to boston and by the militia which were mostly known as minute men. These militias were mostly farmers and soldiers. After this, the Redcoats went to down and asked militias to disperse. 8 Patriots were dead at the end. Their trick was to go behind the trees and hundreds of minute men killed the Redcoats. Almost 200. They had win the the Lexington and Concord Battle.

Interesting Facts About the American Revolution

• There were two Boston Tea Parties.
• The first submarine attack was placed in New York's Harbor in 1776
• Benjamin Franklin was the one in charge of writing the declaration of Independence.
• John Adams defended the British Soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
• 1/7 people in Washington's Army were Black.
• Washington was the best spymaster in the American History
• Women also participated in the Continental Army
• In 1779 more Americans were fighting with British than with Washington
• King George almost leave the crown after the British Army's lost.

Intolerable Acts And How Colonists Take Action!

With all the abuse from the British with the taxes against the colonists, these people were tired. They starting taking actions because their ports were closed, they had to pay too much taxes, they had to take care of British soldiers in their own home and give them all their needs, they cut some lands that belonged to the colonists, etc. These acts were called the Coercive Acts. And these acts were most known as the Intolerable Acts because colonists didnt want to be under this domain anymore. They starting taking actions by making boycotts, the Parliament and the crown get angry so thats why they made all these rules. The crown send forces and warships to the colonies and were threatening the colonists. These people were sick of all this abuse, so in 1774 delegates from all the colonies except Pennsylvania and Georgia made the first Continental Congress which were to make boycotts in the Coercive acts and this also lead to a colonial unity. The leaders in this time were: John Adams and Patrick Henry. 2 years passed and they were still against the king and his acts, also the right to have a representation in the parliament and made all his rights fairly.

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