Colonial Self-Rule
Term: This is the time period when Britain largely left the colonies alone to govern themselves.
salutary neglect
This 1763 law drew a line down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains, ordering colonists not to settle past it.
Proclamation of 1763
This act required colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they used, including newspapers and playing cards.
Stamp Act
King George III declared that Great Britain must either "master them, or totally leave them alone" in response to this colonial action.
Boston Tea Party
This is a small army of citizens trained to fight in an emergency.
militia
This is the year the Boston Massacre occurred.
1770
They had power to pass laws, create and collect taxes, and decide how the colony's tax money should be spent.
colonial assemblies
The French and Indian War was part of a long struggle over WHAT between France and Great Britain.
territory and power
Colonists protested new taxes from Parliament with this rally cry (SLOGAN) , as they had no representatives in the British government.
"No taxation without representation!"
The first law of the Intolerable Acts to pay back tea
Close the Boston Harbor from all shipping
This Boston Patriot was known for being gifted at stirring up protests through his speeches and writing against the Townshend Acts.
Samuel Adams
The name of the Patriot that did the engraving of the Boston Massacre
Paul Revere
Place: This is the region between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers that both Great Britain and France claimed.
Ohio Valley
WHERE: The British soldiers, led by General Edward Braddock, were ambushed by the French and their American Indian allies here in 1755.
Ohio Valley
This was the first of the Townshend duties to be repealed in 1770, except for this one item, which the king insisted on keeping a tax on.
tax on tea
This British military action was done to enforce the new Intolerable Acts
more troops being sent to Boston
This new head of the British government in 1770 persuaded Parliament to repeal most of the Townshend duties because the American boycott was causing merchants to lose money.
Lord North
This is the name of the Captain that said he was innocent because he did not order his men to fire
Thomas Preston
Person: This 22-year-old volunteer led the Virginia militia against the French, marking the first shots of the French and Indian War.
George Washington
This European country ceded (gave) its claim of land in Canada to Great Britain in the peace treaty that ended the war in 1763.
FRANCE
These groups of colonists often took violent actions against tax collectors' homes, such as the group that almost buried a tax collector alive.
Sons of Liberty
This Patriot leader urged the delegates at the First Continental Congress to come together as one people, declaring, "I am not a Virginian, but an American."
Patrick Henry
This term, meaning the unjust use of government power, was what colonists sensed when the king issued the Proclamation of 1763 and later with the Stamp Act.
tyranny
proud and honorable
What did they have more of when Americans had to run their own affairs compared to ordinary people in Europe during the time of "salutary neglect."
more freedom
This was the proposed plan by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany meeting that called for the British colonies to form an alliance for their defense, but it was not supported.
The Albany Plan of Union
These laws, passed in 1767, placed a duty (tax) on goods imported from Great Britain like glass, paint, paper, and tea.
Townshend Acts
A Patriot action that was called for by the First Continental Congress to oppose the Intolerable Acts, alongside organizing local militias.
new boycott of British goods
These New England volunteers organized into local militias and could be ready to fight in 60 seconds.
Minutemen
John Adams defended the soldiers in court and compared their possible death sentence to this series of 1692 court trials where innocent people were executed.
Salem Witch Trials