In the Triangular Trade, what was typically carried on the "Middle Passage" from Africa to the Americas?
Guns and textiles
Sugar and tobacco
Enslaved Africans
Rum and manufactured goods
What was the primary reason the American colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773?
The tea was spoiled and unfit for drinking.
They were protesting the British Parliament’s tax on tea without colonial representation.
The British government had banned the sale of all tea in the colonies.
They were acting on orders from the French government.
What was the primary purpose of the Sugar Act passed by the British Parliament in 1764?
To ban the importation of all sugar and molasses into the American colonies
To lower the price of British tea to help the East India Company
To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
To raise revenue by taxing molasses and sugar while cracking down on smuggling
What was the main achievement of the First Continental Congress (1774)?
Declared independence from Britain
Wrote the U.S. Constitution
Agreed to boycott British goods
Elected George Washington as president
The War of Independence broke out in ______(year),in ______(name of the place).
Who was the writer of the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
What is the core idea of the Declaration of Independence?
Americans must pay British taxes.
All men are created equal with unalienable rights.
The king should appoint colonial governors.
Slavery must be abolished.