History of the Americas Questions
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When and where did the American Revolution start and end?
What did the Second Continental Congress try to achieve with the Olive Branch Petition?
The Seven Years War is not the same as the French and Indian War.
The enlightenment thinkers replaced faith in god with reason in order to explain the cause of things
What is the name of the only woman who fought in American War of Independence?
Constitutional signer James McHenry recorded this exchange after the Constitutional Convention of 1787 between Mrs. Powel and whom?
What role did British secretary of state for America, Lord Dartmouth, and General Thomas Gage, commander of the British forces in Boston, play in the American War of Independence?
In which document do these words appear: "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"?
King George Ill had the right to raise taxes on his American subjects by mercantilist standards?
Whose theory first introduce the idea that kings received their power from the people, not God, which meant that people had the right to replace a bad king?
Whose theory did Enlightenment Americans prefer when they denounced "Taxation without representation?"
Did King George III have the right to raise taxes on his American subjects by mercantilist standards?
In which document did the delegates of the First Continental Congress recognize King George III as their king and therefore proved that Americans did not intend to become independent at the start of the crisis with Great Britain?
Did Americans call the First Continental Congress because they were thinking about becoming independent of Great Britain?
Which political system did the founding fathers create for the United States of America after the American War of Independence?
The Bill of Rights were an achievement of the Democratic-Republicans or the Federalists?
Which new tool did Enlightenment thinkers use in replacement of faith to explain the cause of things (acquire knowledge)?
During the First Great Awakening, which preacher was best known for the sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Who did the Second Continental Congress appoint as the commander of Continental Army?
Which thinker laid out the first case of complete independence for America?