Acts and Proclamations
Required colonists to provide food, drink, and housing to British soldiers stationed in their towns or villages.
Quartering Act
Who defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre?
John Adams
Who was the most famous victim of the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
What law did the British create to stop smuggling?
Writs of Assistance
Define repeal and boycott
Repeal means to take back or cancel
Boycott- refuse to buy goods or take part
This act taxed textiles and coffee, and was strictly enforced
Sugar Act
Describe the Tea Act
The Tea Act allowed the East India Tea Company of Britain to sell tea in America at a cheap price. The Act allowed for the merchant to be cut out.
Made taxed tea even cheaper than smuggled tea. They were still upset and didn't buy the tea.
What Sons of Liberty member helped plan the Boston Tea Party?
Sam Adams
Jefferson states three Natural Rights in the Declaration of Independence.
Identify his three Natural Rights
The Enlightenment thinker who Jefferson took the idea from and that persons' 3 Natural Rights.
Jefferson- Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
John Lock- Life, Liberty, Property
Explain the phrase "shot heard around the world"
Lexington and Concord helped start the American Revolution and the news spread around the world. Many other countries eventually declared and created their own independence.
What did the Stamp Act tax? 3 Needed
Newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, land deeds, marriage licenses, dice
Explain how the French and Indian War helped cause the American Revolution.
The French and Indian War cause the British to be in a large amount of debt. The British taxed the colonist to pay off the debt but did not give the colonists representation in government.
Identify the two key events John Adams took part in during this unit.
Lawyer for British
Part of the Committee of Five
How did Paul Revere use the Boston Massacre as propaganda?
He made the picture / etching of the Boston Massacre and made the British look bad. No clubs in the colonists hands, British commander looking like he said fire, no snowballs, and the title was it the Bloody Massacre.
Define propaganda
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What did the Townshend Act Tax? 3 needed.
Glass, silk, lead, paint, paper and tea.
What was Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Identify the name of the punishment for Massachusetts and the warning to other colonies.
Identify the four parts.
Intolerable Acts
Closed Boston Harbor, Canceled MA Charter, New Quartering Act, Trials of British Official Moved to GB
What two men were the British marching out to capture at Lexington?
John Hancock and Sam Adams
The Declaration of Independence had a list of complaints. The sentences start off with He and For.
Who is the He referring to and what group is the For referring to?
He - King George III
For- British Parliament
Define a patriot and a loyalist
Patriot is a colonists that wants to break from Great Britain
Loyalists is a colonists that wants to stay loyal to Great Britain
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do and why were the colonists upset with the law? Why did the British create the law.
Cut off the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to new colonists.
The were upset because it cut off the land that they had fought for in the French and Indian war. Loss of land, $ and resources
British did not have to send troops ($) to protect the colonists.
Before the Declaration of Independence Ben Franklin helped create what proposal that called for the colonists to unite?
Albany Plan of Union
Identify the 5 member committee responsible for writing the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston.
What British Act was repealed? Why was it repealed? And what was the British written response to the repeal?
Stamp Act was repealed because the colonists protested and the British wrote the Declaratory Act stating that they were still in control of the colonies.
Define each part of the Declaration of Independence
A. For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws
B. But when a long train of abuses
C. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
A. Stopped town meetings and ended their laws
B. continually abused over a long period of time
C. Quartering Act- troops in their areas without our permission