Colonial Crackdown
Why were the colonists mad about the Tea Act
It put a tax on tea after a lot of their other stuff had already been taxed. Also, it forced them to buy British tea.
The British, July 4, 1776
Who rode to warn the colonists of British invasion in April 1775?
Paul Revere
When was the Magna Carta signed?
1215
What did the Stamp Act tax?
Paper products; letters, newspapers
What body of representatives signed the Declaration?
The Second Continental Congress
Bunker Hill
Who drafted the English Bill of Rights?
Parilament
Who represented the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre?
John Adams
They ignored it.
Which two battles opened the Revolutionary War?
Lexington and Concord
What was one freedom guaranteed in the English Bill of Rights?
Excessive bail; freedom of petition; cruel and unusual punishment
What is one important constitutional reason why the colonists were angry about taxation?
They had no representatives in Parilament
What do governments derive their just powers from according to the Declaration?
The consent of the governed
What were the British trying to seize at Lexington?
Powder stores
What are the two branches of Parliament?
House of Lords, House of Commons
What were the two names for the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party?
Coercive Acts (British name)
Intolerable Acts (American name)
Name Four Members of the Committee of Five which drafted the Declaration
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Roger Sherman
Robert Livingston
Why did British soldiers march in wide, close lines?
Muskets are not accurate weapons
What were the names of the two books by John Locke which influenced Thomas Jefferson when he was writing the Declaration?
Two Treatises of Government