Important Documents
Who wrote common sense?
Thomas Paine
Why was Great Britain passing all these acts, taxes, and laws?
to pay off their debt from the French and Indian War
what was the main slogan or catchphrase of the colonial protests?
no taxation without representation?
Read this quote and tell me what document it is from
"But where, say some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Great Britain."
Common Sense
What is the term for the following definition?
A settlement controlled by a parent country elsewhere
colony
Who did Thomas Paine call a "royal brute"?
King George III
stamp act
What was the colonial response to the Stamp and Quartering Act?
protests, boycotting, and ____?
Stamp Act Congress
Read this Quote and tell me what document it is from
"in the presence of God and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, acts, constitutions"
Mayflower Compact
What is the term for the following definition?
To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, dealing with, or participating in as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion
Boycott
What did Thomas Paine argue and encourage the colonies to do?
Break Away or Declare Independence
What did the Declaratory Act do?
This act stated that Parliament had total power to tax and govern the colonies as it saw fit.
What major event was a colonial response to the Tea Act?
Boston Tea Party?
read the quote and tell me what document it came from
"An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free."
Tea Act
What is the term for the following definition?
To take up or be assigned lodgings (housing)
quarter
What form of government did the Mayflower Compact create
Direct Democracy
Which British Act taxed many of the colonists' imported goods?
Townshend Acts
What act prompted the meeting of the First Continental Congress?
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
Read this quote and tell me what document it comes from
"As to government matters, ‘tis not in the power of Britain to do this continent justice: the business of it will soon be too weighty and intricate to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience, by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which, when obtained, requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness. There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease."
Common Sense
What is the term for the following definition?
Government of a country (or colony) by its own people
self-government
What was one of the Big Ideas from the Mayflower Compact?
consent of the governed or self-government
Which of the British Acts was passed as a response to the colonists boycotting and protesting the Townshend Acts?
Tea Act
At the beginning of the Second Continental Congress, what was sent to King George III?
The Olive Branch Petition
read the quote and tell me from what document does it come from?
"An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachuset’s Bay, in North America."
Intolerable Acts
What is the term for the following definition?
The free right of adopting and enjoying opinions on religious subjects, and of worshiping the Supreme Being according to the dictates of conscience, without external (outside) control
religious liberty
Social Contract
What were 2 of the things that the Intolerable Acts did?
closed the port of Boston
Placed Massachusetts under military rule
required colonists to quarter troops
What were 2 of the decisions made by the First Continental Congress?
Declare Intolerable Acts an attack on colonial liberties/rights
Form Militias
Boycott British Imports and stop exports to Great Britain
What document is this from?
"As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon, and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of government by Kings. All anti-monarchical parts of scripture, have been very smoothly glossed over in monarchical governments, but they undoubtedly merit the attention of countries which have their governments yet to form."
Common Sense
What is the term for the following definition?
The idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and lawful only when consented to or agreed to by the people over which that political power is exercised
consent of the governed
Put the Following Documents in Chronological Order from earliest to latest
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Common Sense
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
English Bill of Rights
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Put the following Acts in Chronological Order from first to last
Quartering Act
Tea Act
Declaratory Act
Stamp Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
Tea Act
Place the following Colonial Responses in Chronological Order from first to last
Protesting the Stamp Act
Boston Tea Party
Protesting the Townshend Acts
Olive Branch Petition
First Continental Congress
Protesting the Stamp Act
Protesting the Townshend Acts
Boston Tea Party
First Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
read this quote and tell me what document it is from
"For such arrangements as your Majesty’s wisdom can form for collecting the united sense of your American people, we are convinced your Majesty would receive such satisfactory proofs of the disposition of the Colonists towards their Sovereign, and the parent state, that the wished for opportunity would soon be restored to them of evincing the sincerity of their professions by every testimony of devotion becoming the most dutiful Subjects and the most affectionate Colonists. "
Olive Branch Petition
What is the term for the following definition?
A tax levied upon goods as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing country
tariff