Early American Government: Review

At the beginning, the 13 US colonies _______

• Had 1 US government in charge of them

• Had 5 men in charge of them

• Would sometimes meet

• Were separate

What was the name of groups of people that formed to write letters to the different states about the tea tax, et cetera?

• Committees of Correspondence

• First Continental Congress

• Sons of Liberty

• The Counsel of the Lying bunnies

The First Continental Congress...

• Signed the Declaration of Independence

• Wrote the Articles of the Confederation

• Put some boycotts in place

• Rode dragons around England and fought giants

Check all that apply to the Sons of Liberty

• They were a club

• They wanted liberty

• They did the Boston Tea Party

• They were formal

Check all that apply to the 2nd Continental Congress

• They were formal

• They did the Boston Tea Party

• They signed the Declaration of Independence

• They wanted liberty

Both members of the Sons of Liberty and the 2nd Continental Congress were Americans

• True

• False

The Treaty of Paris was:

• A peace treaty signed to end the American Revolution

• A paper declaring that American is going to war

• A paper saying that America would not fight France

• A paper declaring that everyone will get free hot dogs

The Treaty of Paris was between

• America and Britain (England)

• America and France

• Britain (England) and France

• America and Paris

The Articles of the Confederacy was:

• A document declaring that America was free

• A document ending the American Revolution

• A document that stated the first US government without a king

• A document that said that the red coats are cool

The Articles of the Confederacy worked perfectly!

• True

• False