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| Who were the Pilgrams ? | The Pilgrams were a group of people from England who had settled in the Plymouth Colony, in the New World, which became known as Massachusetts. They were escaping from religious persecution in England. |
| Name the "original thriteen" English colonies in the New World. | The "original thirteen" English colonies in the New World were the following: New Hamsphire; Massachusetts; Conneticut; Rhode Island; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Maryland; Delaware; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; and, Georgia. |
| In the United States of America, what is Thankgiving Day celbrated in commemoration for ? | In the United States of America, Thanksgiving Day is celibrated in commemoration for the Pigrams, in Massachusetts, surviving their first cold winter in the New World with the help of their Indian friends. After that cold Winter, the Pilgrams and their Indian friends had a big feast. in thanksgiving for their survival. For this, Thanksgiving Day originated as a holiday in the United States. |
| Fought in North America, what was the French and Indian War of the early A.D. 1760's ? | The French and Indian War was Fought between England and France in North America over the land west of the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. The French wanted the land mainly for fur trapping and the English of settlements. Each side had their Indians allies, in this often bloody conflict. In A.D. 1763, the English ultimately won the French and Idiand War with the capture of Quebec, Canada from the French. |
| What was the Treaty of Paris in A.D. 1763 ? | The Treaty of Paris in A.D. 1763, officially ended the French and Indian War. It gave England all the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, Canada, and the land south to the north Florida boarder. |
| Who was the King of England during the French and Indian War and the Colonial Period in English America ? | During the French and Indian War and the Colonial Period in English America, the King of England was George III. |
| What was the Englsih Parliament ? | The English Parliament was the "law making" body of England. |
| After the French and Indian War, what did the King of England and the English Parliament demand from the colonialists ? | During the French and Indian War, the English ran up a big monetary dept from having to finance the war. The British King and Parliament felt that the French and Indian War was fought to help out the colonists; therefore, they felt that the colonists should help pay the monetary debt that England owed on the war. As a result the Englsih levied taxes on the colonsits to help pay this monetary debt. |
| After the French and Indian War, how did the colonists feel about the taxes that England imposed on them to help pay off the monetary debt Enland incurred from the war ? | After the French and Indian War, the English colonies felt that the taxes were unfiar that the English imposed on them to help pay off the war debt incurred by England during the war. The colonists felt that it was England's duty to protect her colnoies; therefore, England should pay the monetary debt herself and not expect her colonies to pay off the burden of this monetary debt for them. |
| What were the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Intolerable Acats ? | They were laws passed by the English Parliament, and approved by the Englsih King, that placed taxes on colonial goods such as official documents, wood, tea, and the like-as well as, instituting punishments for those who disobeyed these acts. |
| What was the Boston Tea Party ? | The Boston Tea Party was when a group of colonists, dressed as Indians, slipped into Boston Habor, and dumped a ship load of tea from an English merchant into the water. This was done to protest the English tax on colonial tea. |
| What was the First Continental Congress of A.D. 1774 ? | In A.D. 1774, in the the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, representatives from all thirteen of the orgrinal English colonies in the Americas, met to discuss the problems they were experiencing in reference to English taxation on the colonists. They wrote a letter to the English King and Parliament that stated the following: that the taxation acts be repealed and the punishments be done away with;, and, that the colonists have representation in the English Parliament in order to have a voice in their own affiars.The English King and Parliament ignored these requests and continued to tax and enforce taxation on the colonists with representation from the colonists.. |
| What were Thomas Paine's phamphets, called "Common Sense", designed to do ? | Thomas Paine's phamphlet know as "Common Sense" was designed to provide legitament and justifiable resons for the colonists to replace England rule and institute their own rule and government. |
| What was the Second Continental Congress ? | In A.D. 1775, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, representatives from all thirteen of the original English colonies in America, met to discuss the deteriorated conditions since the First Continential Congress of A.D. 1774. They concluded that the time had come for the thirteen colonies to declare their independence from England since they felt that the English Parliament and King left them lno other recourse. |
| What was the Declaration of Indepdence of A.D. 1776 ? | It was drawn up at the Second Continental Congress and signed on July 4, 1776 A.D. It was a document that gave the reasons for and declared the English colonies in America's indiepence from their mother country, England. It has become one of the landmark historical documents in the history of the United States as well as in World History. For it was the first time that a colony was to declare their independence from their mother country. Each year, it is commemorated in the United States on July 4th and is known as "Independnece Day" and "the 4th of July". |
| Who was mainly reponsible for drawing up the Declaration of Independnece of A.D. 1775 ? | It was Thomas Jefferson who was mainly responsible for drawing up the Declaration of Indepence of A.D. 1776. |
| What statement from the Declaration of Indepence of A.D. 1776 best summarizes it main idea ? | The following statement from the Declaration of Indepence of A.D. 1776 best summarizes the document: "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." |
