British Acts
Taxed Sugar, Textiles, Coffee, Molasses
Sugar Act
The founder of the Sons of Liberty with his own beer
Samual Adams
This 1215 English document established that the King's power is not absolute and introduced the idea of trial by jury
Magna Carta
This famous protest motto was created by colonists who were angry about paying British taxes without having a voice in Parliament
"No Taxation without Representation"
Salutary Neglect
Policy defining the relationship between the Colonies and the British mainland relating to mutually beneficial uninvolvement of England
Required Colonial Governments to fund the housing of British Soldiers
Quartering Act
Defended the British Soldiers in court after the Boston Massacre
John Adams
John Locke writes that the three basic natural rights that all people are born with are...
Life, Liberty and Property
This was the most effective form of Resistance to British Taxes
Boycott
Militia
Citizen Soldiers trained to fight
Law requiring all official documents to have a royal stamp
Stamp Act
One of the most influential thinkers of the American Revolution, resided in Phillidelphia
Benjamin Franklin
This argument by the American Colonists, was made against being a "virtually represented" people
England was across an ocean and members of parliament had no real connection to them
When tensions between Boston citizens and British soldiers erupted into violence, leaving five colonists dead.
Boston Massacre
Proclamation of 1763
Law limiting the Colonists from expanding West of the Appalachian Mountains
Tax on lead, glass, paint, paper and tea
Townshend Acts
Most wealthy Smuggler and a Trader from Massachusetts, also responsible for the Sons of Liberty
John Hancock
Democratic principles from Ancient Greece influenced American Revolutionary leaders in their reasoning that ultimate sovereignty (Freedom and ability to govern) was held by who?
The people
In September 1774, leaders from 12 colonies met together for the first time in response to the Intolerable Acts.
The First Continental Congress
Virtual Representation
The concept in Parliament that the Colonies did have representation because they were represented by the all members of Parliament, as are all English Citizens both in the mother country and abroad in Colonies
The Act that the Colonists would not accept
The Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
Made a midnight Ride to warn of the coming redcoats
Paul Revere
John Locke argued that the MAIN purpose of government is to perform this function...
Protect the rights of the people
A violent method of protest used by the Sons of Liberty against Stampmen and Tax Collectors resulting in potential permanent injury or death
Tar and Feather
The Quebec Act
Act that cave lands in the Ohio River Valley to Quebec instead of the colonists