Taxes and Acts
This 1765 law taxed printed materials such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards, angering colonists who had no vote in Parliament.
The Stamp Act
Under this economic system, colonies supplied raw materials and bought finished goods to increase the wealth of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
In this document, the colonies declared that they were free and independent states.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
After the Revolution, this general gave up command of the Continental Army and later became the nation’s first president, modeling service to the new republic.
Who is George Washington?
This agreement, written by the Pilgrims before landing in 1620, showed colonists creating rules and agreeing to govern themselves.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Passed to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party, these laws closed Boston Harbor and restricted colonial self-government.
What were the Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)?
English explorers and colonists came to North America seeking land, natural resources, and new trade opportunities. What broad motive does this describe?
What was the pursuit of economic wealth? What is Gold?
This 1777 American victory convinced France to openly support the Patriots and is often called a turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This British king ruled during the American Revolution and was named in the Declaration of Independence for abuses against the colonies.
Who was King George III?
These fundamental rights are understood as belonging to people by nature and cannot rightfully be taken away by government.
What are unalienable rights?
This 1763 British policy barred colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
These British trade laws supported mercantilism by directing colonial goods and commerce to benefit England.
What were the Navigation Acts?
During this harsh winter encampment, Washington’s army faced cold and shortages but received training that strengthened the Continental Army.
What was Valley Forge?
This American naval commander became famous for declaring, “I have not yet begun to fight,” during a sea battle with the British.
Who is John Paul Jones?
A British official’s account that calls Patriot protesters “lawless troublemakers” may show this because the writer’s position shapes the account.
What is bias or point of view?
Colonists used this complaint to argue that Parliament should not tax them because they had no elected representatives there.
What was “taxation without representation”?
At this protest, colonists boarded ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor to oppose British policies and taxation.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
At this 1781 battle, British General Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces, helping bring the war to an end.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
In a letter to her husband during the Revolution, she urged leaders to “remember the ladies” when creating new laws.
Who is Abigail Adams?
Thomas Jefferson put his own twist saying Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness borrowing the idea form this Enlightenment thinker.
Who is John Locke?
This 1767 set of British duties taxed imported glass, lead, and paint increasing colonial opposition to Parliament.
What were the Townshend Acts?
By dumping tea into Boston Harbor to protest British policy, colonists used this kind of action to resist a law.
What is civil disobedience?
This 1783 agreement ended the Revolutionary War and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet, which argued that the colonies should separate from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
The Declaration complained that British soldiers were quartered in colonists’ homes; this amendment limits quartering soldiers in private homes.
What is the Third Amendment?