Road to Revolution
This war left Britain deeply in debt and led to new taxes on the colonies.
What was the Seven Years’ War?
These colonists wanted independence from Britain.
Who were the Patriots?
This famous phrase described the colonists’ complaint about unfair taxes.
What is “taxation without representation”?
This group still could not vote after the Revolution.
Who were women?
Colonists were upset because Britain taxed them without giving them this.
What is representation in Parliament?
These colonists remained loyal to Britain during the Revolution.
Who were the Loyalists?
The belief that people are born with rights like life and liberty.
What are natural rights?
This institution continued even after independence.
What is slavery?
This 1765 law taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials.
What was the Stamp Act?
Britain offered this to some enslaved people in exchange for fighting for them.
What is freedom?
The Enlightenment emphasized this over tradition and unquestioned authority.
What is reason?
John Green distinguishes this military conflict from the broader Revolution.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This act gave the British East India Company special advantages selling tea.
What was the Tea Act?
This philosopher influenced American ideas about natural rights and government by consent.
Who was John Locke?
The Revolution replaced this type of government led by a king.
What is a monarchy?
Colonists were already doing this before fighting began, showing independence was growing early.
What is governing themselves / acting independently?
Colonists protested British taxes by dumping tea into this harbor.
What is Boston Harbor?
This Crash Course host asks whether the American Revolution was truly revolutionary.
Who is John Green?
This type of government was created after independence.
What is a republic?
According to the episode, the Revolution was revolutionary for creating democracy, but limited because this social system stayed mostly intact.
What is the existing social hierarchy / elite power structure?