Sneaky Acts
This 1764 law taxed sugar, coffee, wine, and molasses imported into the colonies
What is the Sugar Act?
The Virginian orator who declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
This French philosopher wrote The Social Contract, advocating for the “sovereignty of the people.”
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at this 1775 Massachusetts town.
What is Lexington
This Virginian proposed independence to the Second Continental Congress.
Who is Richard Henry Lee?
This 1765 act imposed an internal tax on all paper goods in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group, organized by Samuel Adams, orchestrated protests against British taxation.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
He wrote Treatise on Civil Government and argued people can revolt if government breaches the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
This battle on June 17, 1775, was a Pyrrhic victory for the British.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The British Prime Minister responsible for enforcing the Stamp Act.
Who is George Grenville?
The Massachusetts lieutenant governor whose house was attacked by mobs.
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
This Scottish economist wrote Wealth of Nations and promoted laissez-faire economics.
Who is Adam Smith?
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army appointed in July 1775.
Gorge Washrington
The president of the Continental Congress when the Declaration was signed.
Who is John Hancock?
This act, passed in 1766, repealed the Stamp Act but asserted Parliament’s authority over the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
These essays by John Dickinson argued that unrepresented taxation was equivalent to slavery.
What are the Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania?
Author of Common Sense, which inspired revolutionary sentiment in 1776.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Washington’s clever December 1776 attack that defeated Hessians in NJ.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
These five people comprised the committee that drafted the Declaration.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston?
How many Stamp Act Resolves were there? what did all of them say?
1-2: Colonists have same rights as Englishmen
3: Colonists cannot be taxed without representation
4: Colonists cant be taxed without our own consent
5-7: The House of Burgesses was the only government that could tax Virginians
This 1774 VA document called for a colony-wide boycott, a continental congress, and a ban on the slave trade.
What are the Fairfax Resolves?
This principle, emphasized by Montesquieu in Spirit of the Laws, influenced the structure of the U.S. government.
What is checks and balances?
French admiral who helped trap Cornwallis at Yorktown.
Who is Admiral de Grasse?
This clause, originally in Jefferson’s draft, was removed to avoid condemning slavery.
What is the condemnation of the slave trade?