British Legislation
This 1765 act required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials.
What was the Stamp Act?
This group of Patriots led many protests against British policies in Boston, New York, and other seaport cities.
What were the Sons of Liberty?
This royal governor of Massachusetts rejected the idea of two independent legislatures in one state.
Who was Thomas Hutchinson?
This 1763 boundary prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation Line?
This philosophical movement provided Patriots with the concept of "natural rights."
What is Enlightenment rationalism?
This 1766 act reaffirmed Parliament's authority to make laws for the colonies.
What was the Declaratory Act?
This 1765 meeting in New York City brought together representatives from nine colonies.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
This young Virginian, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, denounced the Stamp Act and attacked George III.
Who was Patrick Henry?
This Native American group formed in 1770 to oppose further expansion into the Ohio country.
What was the Scioto Confederacy?
This English political tradition praised the creation of a constitutional monarchy after 1688.
What was the Whig, or the Whig tradition?
This act of 1767 imposed duties on colonial imports of various goods.
What was the Townshend Act?
These colonial women supported the boycott of British goods by producing homemade cloth.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This Massachusetts lawyer challenged open-ended search warrants in a famous 1761 case, launched the idea of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, and began to reject slavery.
These people occupied lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains without legal title.
Who were squatters?
This body of legal rules was used by Patriot lawyers to challenge British policies.
What was English common law?
This act created a board of customs commissioners and new courts in several colonial cities.
What was the Revenue Act of 1767?
This 1768 movement involved refusing to import British goods and instead producing those goods at home.
What was the nonimportation movement?
This British politician introduced new revenue acts in 1767.
Who was Charles Townshend?
This colonial leader explored western lands using warrants earned during the Seven Years' War.
Who was George Washington?
This French philosopher's writings on governmental structure—specifically that a "separation of powers" would prevent arbitrary rule—influenced American Patriots.
Who was Montesquieu?
This compromise act of 1770 repealed most duties but retained one symbolic tax.
What was Lord North's compromise?
This March 1770 event in Boston resulted in the deaths of five colonists.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This American printer and diplomat in 1765 demanded representation for the American colonies in Parliament, but in 1770 began arguing that the colonies were "distinct and separate states" with the same sovereign.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
This British nobleman opposed westward expansion partly to protect his Irish estates.
Who was Lord Hillsborough?
By 1770, this political stance claimed equality for American assemblies within the empire.
What was the repudiation of parliamentary supremacy?