| A | B |
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| What were the name of the acts that were passed by Parliament to restore order in Boston? | Coercive/Intolerable Acts |
| What group of writers formed to tell what was happening in the colonies? | Committees of Correspondence |
| What group of people met in Philadelphia to ask for their "Rights as Englishmen" to be restored? | First Continential Congress |
| What did the first Continential write to King George? | a letter |
| "Shot heard round the world" | Lexington and Concord |
| Who wrote "Common Sense"? | Thomas Paine |
| What did Thomas Paine advocate? | Independence |
| What group of people actually declared our independence from Great Britain? | Second Continential Congress |
| What did the Second Continential Congress write? | Declaration of Indepedence |
| How many sections in the Declaration of Independence? | Three |
| What is the name of the first state to organize themselves as a state? | New Hampshire |
| How many branches of government did the states have? | Three |
| Which state has never changed their original Constitution? | Massachusetts |
| Which state Constitution was the model for the U.S. Constitution? | Massachusetts Constitution |
| What was the name of the first Constitution of the U.S.? | Articles of Confederation |
| What battle led to the British defeat and eventual withdraw from the American Colonies? | Yorktown 1781 |
| Which British general surrendered at Yorktown? | Cornwallis |
| What is the name of the treaty that offically ended the American Revolution? | Treaty of Paris 1783 |
| What event led to the creation of a new Constitution? | Shay's Rebellion |
| What federal law dealt with the organization of the lands to the Northwest of the Ohio River and East of the Mississippi River? | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
