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Which of the following colonists represented the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre at their murder trial, of the eight soldiers on trial, the jury acquitted six, convicting the other two of the reduced charge of manslaughter?

In the________________, adopted on October 14, the colonists demanded the repeal of all repressive acts passed since 1773 and agreed to a non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption pact against all British goods until the acts were repealed.

The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the war for independence, did not address which group of people, especially when describing territorial boundaries?

What was the event known as where the Son’s of Liberty dressed as Native Americans, and systematically dumped all the tea into the harbor, destroying goods worth almost $1 million in today’s dollars as protest against the Tea Act?  

Which of the following was the first direct tax placed on the American colonists, taxing anything what was written or printed?

The Federalists, particularly John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, presented their case to the public on the benefits of the Constitution in a famous series of essays known as

American Patriots renamed the Coercive and Quebec measures the   

Who served as a role model par excellence for the new republic, embodying the exceptional talent and public virtue prized under the political and social philosophy of republicanism, he did not seek to become the new king of America, instead, he retired as commander in chief of the Continental Army and returned to his Virginia estate at Mount Vernon to resume his life among the planter elite?

Which of the following was associated with the counting of slaves in the state’s population, giving slave holding states more representatives in Congress?

Private __________, by which slaveholders freed the enslaved, provided one pathway from bondage, one of the earliest efforts began in 1775 in Philadelphia, where Dr. Benjamin Rush and other Philadelphia Quakers formed what became the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.