Rejections to British authority. Can be an objection to any authority.
What is a rebellion?
100
Our first United States Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
A formal request.
What is a petition?
100
Another word for income.
What is revenue?
200
To cancel.
What is to repeal?
200
Information designed to influence opinions.
What is propaganda?
200
Actually wrote our Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The introduction to the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Preamble?
200
Act that had required all goods to be taxed by England, no matter where they are coming from or going to.
What is the Navigation Acts?
300
Passed by Parliament in 1764, this lowered the tax on Molasses for colonists. Britain thought this would entice colonists to pay the tax, instead it had the reverse effect and colonists refused to purchase the good and continued smuggling the goods.
What is the Sugar Act?
300
Occurred in result of the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
People who remained loyal to Britain.
Who are Loyalists?
300
Led the beginning of the separation from Britain.
Who is George Washington?
300
Another term that describes the search warrant concept.
What is writs of assistance?
400
Taxes the goods and services that were produced at this time period in the colonies. These goods consisted of mostly printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
Colonist revolt against the East India Company in regards to their tax on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
People who supported the colonists in separating from Britain.
Who are Patriots?
400
This group took steps in beginning to govern the colonies.
What are the Constitutional Congresses?
400
Another term that means to cancel.
What is repeal?
500
British began refusing to unload goods into the colonies until taxes were paid. If taxes were refused, goods were not transferred.
What is the Townshend Acts?
500
Another name for the Intolerable Acts.
What are the Coercive Acts?
500
Militias that were ready in a minutes notice to fight.
What are minutemen?
500
Month and date that the Declaration of Independence was signed.