Causes of Revolution
What war between Britain and France ended in 1763 and left Britain with a large amount of debt?
What was the French and Indian War?
What 1765 law required special stamps on many printed materials in the colonies?
What was the Stamp Act?
What 1770 event involved British soldiers firing into a crowd and killing five colonists?
What is the Boston Massacre
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
On what date did the Second Continental Congress approve the Declaration of Independence?
July 4th, 1776.
What British policy restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains in 1763?
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
What group organized protests against British taxation and policies?
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
What 1773 protest involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party
Who was the British king during the American Revolution?
King George III
What three natural rights are listed in the Declaration of Independence?
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What phrase did colonists use to argue that Parliament should not tax them without elected representatives?
What was "No Taxation Without Representation"?
What 1773 law allowed the East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies while keeping the tea tax?
What is The Tea Act
What two Massachusetts towns were the locations of the first major battles of the American Revolutionary War?
What were Lexington and Concord?
Who was the Patriot leader who helped organize resistance to British policies and was associated with the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams
What does the phrase "consent of the governed" mean?
The government gets power from its people
Why did Britain begin imposing new taxes on the American colonies after the French and Indian War?
Britain needed revenue to help pay its war debt and colonial defense
What name did colonists give to the British laws passed in 1774 to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party?
The Intolerable Act
Explain why the battles of Lexington and Concord were significant to the American Revolution.
the battles mark the beginning of open warfare between Britain and the colonies
Who was the British military governor who ordered troops to march toward Concord in April 1775?
Thomas Gage
What does the Declaration argue people have the right to do when a government repeatedly violates their rights?
What is the right to change or replace their government? (or Revolt)
Explain how the French and Indian War contributed to the American Revolution.
How did Britain's war debt lead to new taxes and restrictions that increased colonial resistance?
Name two ways colonists resisted British taxes and restrictions.
What were boycotts, protests, petitions, demonstrations, or public meetings?
What was the main purpose of the First Continental Congress in 1774?
What was it to organize colonial resistance to British policies and coordinate a response to the Intolerable Acts?
Who defended the British soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre trial, believing they deserved a fair trial?
John Adams
What are the two major political groups among colonists who disagreed about independence, and what did each group support?
Patriots/Loyalists