Acts
First law passed by Parliament that raised tax revenues in the colonies for the crown. It increased duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies.
The people who remained loyal to England during the Revolutionary war, they were against the Patriots, and there were about 20% of the population when the war was over.
Who are Loyalists
First American constitution that established the United States as a loose alliance of states under a weak national Congress, which as not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes
What is Articles of Confederation
British redcoats who fired on a crowd of Boston citizens
a revolt by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts, led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays, against Boston creditors. it began in 1786 and lasted half a year, threatening the economic interests of the business elite and contributing to the demise of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion
All legal documents, contracts, licenses, pamphlets, and newpapers must carry a taxed, means of raising revenue in the colonies
What is Stamp Act
The political group made up of patriots during the pre-independent colonies. They were fighting for the freedom of the Americas, they enacted the Boston Tea Party, they protect rights of colonists
Who are Sons of Liberty
(1787) created a policy for administering the Northwestern Territories; it included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories
What is Northwest Ordinance
This was an act by the Sons of Liberties in which they took tea coming for the East India Company, and put it into the sea, this was done to protest the taxes from England, as well as a show of Independence
What is Boston Tea Party
France aided the U.S. in the American Revolution, and the U.S. agreed to aid France if the need ever arose.
What is French Alliance
These acts were in response to the Boston tea party, these were similar to the Stamp act, and tried to tax the Colonists more, the 5th act, the Quebec Act.
What are Intolerable Acts
An African soldier during the revolution, and the first person shot to death during the Boston Massacre. He is called the first martyr of the revolution, he was an icon of the anti-slavery movement
Who is Crispus Atticus
Argued that colonists should free themselves from British rule and establish an independent government based on Enlightenment ideals - one that would protect man's natural rights.
What is Common Sense
(1774) Delegates form 12 Colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to decide on action, if any, against Britain should be taken.
What is First Continental Congress
Theory that claimed that every member of Parliament represented all British subjects, even those Americans who had never voted for a member of the London Parliament.
What is Virtual Representation
Persuaded Parliament to pass these regulations with an import duty on glass, while lead, paper and paint and tea. This was an indirect customs duty payable at American ports.
What are Townshend Acts
One of the politicians who helped the movement to Independence in Virginia during the 1770s, he's one of the Founding Fathers, and led oppositions to many of the oppressive Acts.
Who is Patrick Henry
On July 8, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances. It was rejected by Parliament, which in December 1775 passed the American Prohibitory Act forbidding all further trade with the colonies.
What is Olive Branch Petition
These battles initiated the Revolutionary War between the American colonists and the British. British governor Thomas Gage sent troops to ________ to stop the colonists who were loading arms. The next day, on April 19, 1775, the first shots were fired in _________ starting the war. The battles resulted in a British retreat to Boston
What is Lexington and Concord
It was part of the Townshend Acts. It said that the customs officers could inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason. Colonists protested that the it violated their rights as British citizens.
What is Writs of Assistance
1766 Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and passed this act which reaffirmed Parliament's right to "bind" the colonies.
What are Declaratory Acts
Drafted a declaration of colonial rights and grievances, and also wrote the series of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" in 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts.
Who is John Dickinson
treaty in which British formally recognized the independence of the United States; granted generous boundaries. Americans could no longer persecute Loyalists and had to restore their property to them; states vowed to put no lawful obstacles in the way of debt-collecting from British
What is Treaty of Paris
This congress met on May 10. 1775. In which they managed the war effort, and moved slowly towards independence, making the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This later became known as the Congress of the Confederation
What is Second Continental Congress
In response to the 1765 Stamp Act, Patrick Henry persuaded the Virginia House of Burgesses to adopt several strongly worded resolutions that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
What is Virginia Resolves