Laws and Taxes
What was the tax on all paper products?
Stamp Act
What country joined the Revolution on the side of the colonies?
France
Why did Britain start imposing unfair taxes onto the colonies?
To pay back debt from the French and Indian war
Estimated $1.7 million worth of tea was dumped into the Boston Harbor during this event of protest.
Boston Tea Party
This document not only declared the colonies freedom to govern themselves but also was seen as an act of war from the British perspective
Declaration of Independence
This law required colonists to allow British soldiers into their homes.
Quartering Act
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
This was the political phrase in which the colonies were left to govern themselves and Britain left them alone. Sometimes this happens at Marist
Salutary Neglect
The name of the first unified government of the 13 colonies
Continental Congress
This letter written by the colonial government asked the King to go back to how it used to be was known as what?
Olive Branch Petition
These acts were a direct punishment for the Boston Tea Party on the colonies.
Intolerable Acts
This battle was seen as a turning point of the war, which allowed the colonies to gain a powerful ally.
Battle of Saratoga
This outcome of the F/I War prevented the colonies from moving west onto the land they just fought for.
Proclamation of 1763
The riot that broke out between colonists and British soldiers that resulted in 5 deaths was called...
The Boston Massacre
The document that officially ended the Revolutionary war
Treaty of Paris
This was the first unfair tax put on the colonies after the French and Indian War, placing a tax on products like syrup and rum.
Sugar Act
Lexington and Concord was an important location for the colonies to defend because of what was kept there.
Weapons and gun powder
What famous quote was used to rally the colonies together, usually put under a disjointed snake.
Join or Die
List the three advantages the British had during the war.
Strongest empire in the world, large navy, more resources
The Treaty of Paris not only ended the war but officially recognized the colonies as what?
The United States of America
This law from the Intolerable Acts lead to unfair trials and courts being held only in Britain.
Administration of Justice Act
Last major battle of the war where Britain surrendered.
Battle of Yorktown
Taxation without Representation
List three advantages the colonies had during the war
Homefield advantage, motivation to fight, new styles of fighting
The redrawn borders of the new United States reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the east, Canada in the north and stopped where in the west?
Mississippi River