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Name given to a search warrant for British officials to search businesses and homes for smuggled goods?
Writs of Assistance
Rode out of Boston to warn Adams and Hancock the British soldiers were coming?
Paul Revere
Main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who is the BEST Social Studies Teacher at WMS?
Correct
A lawmaking body of England made up of the House of Lords and House of Commons.?
Parliment
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
A law stating that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
To refuse to buy, sell, or use a product or service to force someone or something to change?
Boycott
A secret society of men who led protests against Britain.?
Sons of Liberty
The African American citizen killed in the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
This Act required the colonists to provide housing and supplies for the British troops in America.
Quartering Act
Wrote the pamphlet called the “Common Sense”?
Thomas Paine
List in order the 5 parts of the Declaration of Independence?
1)Preamble 2)The Rights of the People to Control Their Government to Control Their Government 3) Tyrannical Acts of the British King 4) Efforts of the Colonies to Avoid Separation to Avoid Separation 5) The Colonies are Declared Free and Independent and Independent
The colonists referred to this Act as the Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts
Which fundamental political idea is expressed in the Declaration of Independence?
If the government denies its people certain basic rights, that government can be overthrown
Who was at fault at the Boston Massacre?
It really depends on your point of view and how you interpret the best available sources of the historical event
Where did the first battles of the Pre- Revolutionary War begin
Lexington and Concord
Which side, the British Which side, the British or the colonists, fired the first at the Battle of Lexington?
It really depends on your point of view and how you interpret the best available sources of the historical event
Why did John Adams defend the British soldiers who were on trial for the Boston Massacre?
He wanted to show that the colonists followed the rule of law and that the events led to the belief that the British soldiers were not guilty of murder.
What are the three natural rights stated in the Declaration of Independence
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
The Declaration of Independence neglected to include the rights of which people?
Women and enslaved people
On what day did Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, dissolving our political connections with Britain.
July 4, 1776
Who won last nights 7 th /8 th Grade scrimmage?
Tie
The word unalienable in the excerpt of the DOI means, what?
Natural
The word abolish in the excerpt of the DOI means, what?
Get rid of
Name this School…
Wheatridge Middle School