British Actions/Policies
This British law placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document officially declared the colonies independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This battle in 1775 is considered the first major military conflict of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
What new country was created after the American Revolution?
What is the United States of America?
Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies more heavily after the French and Indian War?
What is to help pay Britain's war debts and the costs of protecting its colonies?
This group organized protests and encouraged resistance to British taxation.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Which Enlightenment philosopher's ideas about natural rights influenced American revolutionary thinking?
Who is John Locke?
Who served as commander of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
What treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War?
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
This act placed a tax on goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
What was the purpose of a colonial boycott?
What is to refuse to buy British goods in order to hurt British businesses and protest British policies?
According to the Declaration of Independence, governments get their power from this.
What is the consent of the governed?
Why was the Battle of Saratoga considered a major turning point?
What is the American victory convinced France to openly support the American cause?
How did the Revolution change ideas about government?
What is it strengthened the idea that governments should get their power from the people?
Britain passed these laws to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What was one major purpose of the First Continental Congress?
What is to organize colonial resistance and respond to Britain's punishment of Massachusetts?
What three natural rights did John Locke identify that influenced the Declaration of Independence?
What are life, liberty, and property?
What did France provide to help the American colonists during the war?
What are troops, weapons, money, supplies, and naval support?
How did the American Revolution influence other countries?
What is it inspired other people to challenge governments and fight for independence and political rights?
Why did British taxation become such a major source of conflict with the colonists?
What is colonists believed it was unfair to be taxed by a Parliament where they had no elected representatives?
Why did colonial resistance eventually become more organized instead of remaining separate protests?
What is the colonies realized they could have more influence by working together against British policies?
Why was the Declaration of Independence important even though the war was still being fought?
What is it explained the colonists' reasons for breaking away from Britain and presented the colonies as an independent people?
Why was the Battle of Yorktown so important to the American Revolution?
What is the British surrender at Yorktown effectively ended major fighting and led to peace negotiations?
Why can the Revolution be considered both a success and incomplete?
Why can the Revolution be considered both a success and incomplete?