VA Studies Weekly Week 16 Review

The Declaration of Independence was changed ___________ times before it was completed.

Money paid to the government is a _________.

A voluntary military force is called a __________.

The British believed _____________________ should rule the colonies without any input from the colonists.

The French and Indian War went on between the years _________ and ________.

British lawmakers are called _________________.

______________________ was elected by the committee to write the Declaration of Independence.

British Parliament raised money from the America settlers by ______________ the colonists.

Two important ideas in the Declaration of Independence are that: The authority to govern lies with the _____________ and all people are created ____________ and have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The first Continental Congress met in the year __________.

The king wanted to tax the colonies so he could pay for two things. What were they?

The colony of _____________ was affected by the Restraining Act of 1767.

______________ colonies united in 1776 to form the new country of America.

The colonists did not have a say in the British taxes they had to pay. This is called ____________________________________.

After the Boston Tea Party King George ordered British soldiers to _____________________.

Great Britain and the colonies got along well during the ___________________ War.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the ____________________________________ which laid out the complaints of the colonists toward England.

The event in which colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Townsend Acts is called the ____________________.

Most workers are taxed on the __________________.

_____________________ said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"