Vocabulary
People
Ideals
Causes
Events
100
voluntarily abstaining from buying a product for political reasons
What is boycott
100
author of Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
100
life, liberty and property
What are natural rights
100
placed a tax on all legal documents
What is Stamp Act
100
5 people killed in Boston
What is the Boston Massacre
200
European philosophical movement that emphasized reason as the key to understanding nature, economics, and politics
What is the Enlightenment
200
Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas influenced the Declaration of Independencee
What is John Locke
200
governments get their power from the consent of the governed
What is popular sovereignty
200
forcing colonists to house British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act
200
Sons of Liberty unload Tea into the Boston Harbor
What is Boston Tea Party
300
Locke's idea that government is an agreement between it and the people
What is social contract
300
author of Common Sense
What is Thomas Paine
300
Common Sense
What is it does not make sense for an island nation to rule an entire continent with an ocean between them
300
stated that the colonists could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is Proclamation of 1763
300
First battles of the Revolutionary War
What is Lexington and Concord
400
formally ended the Revolutionary War
What is Treaty of Paris 1783
400
secured an agreement with France to help the colonies win the Revolutionary war
What is Ben Franklin
400
the purpose of government
What is to protect people's rights
400
put in place by Britain after the Boston Tea Party
What is Coercive/Intolerable Acts
400
Where the Revolutionary War ended
What is Yorktown
500
British policy of non-interfering with the colonies
What is salutary neglect
500
members of the New England militia
What is Minutemen
500
all people are considered _________________
What is equal
500
added to the repeal of the Stamp Act
What is Declaratory Act
500
Turning point of the Revolutionary War
What is Saratoga
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