Vocab
To argue or discuss in a formal polite manner
This happened when the colonists starting expanding westward and the French didn't want them on their land.
What is the french and Indian War?
When was the declaration of Independence Adopted?
What is the 4th of July?
The government's power to rule comes from ________ according to the Declaration of Independence?
“the consent of the governed.”
or
Citizens (The people)
Formal written request that is signed by a group of people
The king made this act to help the colonists pay for the war dept. They had to put them on papers.
What is stamp act?
Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Natural Rights/Unalienable Rights
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
If a government fails to protect people’s fundamental rights, what can the people do?
the fact or state of self government or self rule
This act put a new tax on tea, glass, lead, paints and paper but all were repealed except for the tax on tea.
What are the townshend acts?
The complaints in the Declaration of Independence are called this
What are grievances?
An official government announcement
What is a proclamation?
These acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists after the tea party. The colonists called them the intolerable acts.
What are the coercive acts?
What were the 3 unalienable rights that Thomas Jefferson said are "endowed by their Creator"?
What kind of rights are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
the List of Grievances alluded to what Acts/Taxes?
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
Tea Act
Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts
How does Mr. Ornelas describe the Declaration of Independence?
A break up letter from the colonists to the British
a person that represents a group of people in a meeting.
What is a delegate? (representative gets half points)
This was not a tax on tea but required colonists to buy tea only from the British East India Company.
What is the tea act?
What does "Petitioned for Redress" mean?
To formerly make a request for the King to reexamine and review what he was doing to the colonists and to ask him to STOP IT!
Violating the “sacred rights of life and liberty of a distant people by carrying them into slavery.”
What does “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one group of people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another" mean?
It is necessary for one group of people to break its ties with another group