This placed a tax on all legal documents and newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act
100
This line was created after 1763 and didn't allow colonists to live west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763
100
Rights obtained at birth from nature or God.
What are Natural Rights
100
This group got together and wrote grievances they had with the Intolerable Acts.
What is the 1st Continental Congress
100
This war was fought from 1744-1748. Nothing was solved and the tension spilled over and helped create the French and Indian War.
What is King George's War
200
This placed a tax on all imported goods into the colonies.
What is the Townshend Acts.
200
This event happened in 1770. In the end 5 colonists were dead, and this event was used as propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre
200
The idea that government obtains it's power from the consent of the people.
What is popular sovereignty
200
This group got together and wrote the Declaration of Independence.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress.
200
He was the lawyer for the British soldiers accused of killing the colonists during the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams.
300
This was passed in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Intolerable Acts
300
The main complaint (cry) of the colonists after the Stamp Act was passed.They complained taxes were being passed without their consent.
What is Taxation without Representation
300
".....organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." This quote reflects which idea.
What is Social Contract
300
This army was created by the 2nd Continental Congress. George Washington was appointed as it's leader.
What is the Continental Army
300
Concept which says that colonies are expected to serve the mother country. Thomas Paine used this term to justify independence from Great Britain in his pamphlet, "Common Sense."
What is Mercantilism
400
This placed a tax on sugar and molasses. It affected merchants.
What is the Sugar Acts.
400
The amount of grievances listed out in the Declaration of Independence.
What is 27
400
The thinker who felt their should be separation of powers within governments.
Who Is Montesquieu
400
One of the towns where the Revolutionary war was started.
What is Concord.
400
Why did it take courage to sign the Declaration of Independence.
What is the colonists were committing treason.
500
This said colonists had to house British Soldiers without a choice.
What is Quartering Acts.
500
This allowed British ships to search ships at any time, for no reasons.
What is writs of assistance
500
Who stated people become selfish and greedy due to an unequal distribution of wealth within society.
Rousseau
500
This group was formed to increase communication between
the different colonies colonists and the British parliament.
What is the Committees of Correspondence
500
Besides Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams who else was involved in the Declaration of Independence draft?