Colonial Foundations
This document provided a basis for self-rule and government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
One of the events that escalated tensions leading to the Revolutionary War.
What is Protests against the Stamp Act, Formation of the Sons of Liberty, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, and the Passage of the Coercive Acts.
"No taxation without representation."
What was the phrase used by Americans to protest taxes imposed by Britain?
Issued by King George III, this event was designed to limit conflict between Native Americans and colonial settlers by prohibiting settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
In 1767, Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to Lord Kames of Great Britain, explaining why colonists were frustrated with the end of this "hands-off" approach to managing the colonies.
What is the end of salutary neglect?
In 1607, this early colonial settlement was established near the coastline of Virginia. 12 years later, the Virginia House of Burgesses had its first meeting here.
What is the Jamestown colony?
The colonists' desire for independence gradually increased because of this initial practice being done by the British
What is Salutary Neglect?
This document guaranteed religious freedom for all denominations of Christians in Maryland.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649?
This event resulted in new taxes imposed by Britain onto American colonists to pay off war debts.
What is the French & Indian War?
The Sons of Liberty, a revolutionary protest group, was formed after this British tax was imposed.
What is the Stamp Act?
In 1620, Pilgrims established this colony on the shores of what we call now Massachusetts, seeking religious freedom.
What is the Plymouth colony?
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine played a crucial role in rallying support for independence.
What is "Common Sense"?
Even though it was initially limited in access, this document stated that inalienable (or natural) rights were to be protected for all individuals.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Major turning point where Great Britain ended their policy of "salutary neglect" (a hands-off approach to enforcing policies in their colonies) & the American colonists lost their economic and political privileges.
What is the French & Indian War?
This economic relationship can be described as the "Mother Country" receiving gifts such as raw materials, precious metals, and crops from her "Colonial Children".
What is mercantilism?
In the 1620s, the Dutch established this local colony to expand trade and commerce. In 1664, the English demanded surrender of the colony and renamed it New York.
What is the New Amsterdam colony?
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" contains these.
What are justifications/reasons for the American Revolution?
Both "Common Sense" and this document addressed grievances against British policies.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This rebellious act in New England a response against British taxation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
After the French & Indian War, protests and demands for representation in Parliament were widespread in the American colonies because of this.
What is increased taxation?
In addition to spreading Christianity ("God") and seeking personal fame ("Glory"), this was the main reason European nations sought to establish colonies in the new world.
What is "Gold", or economic interests.
Created at the Continental Convention in 1776, this document declared the colonies' intention of becoming independent from Britain, justified the revolution, listed grievances against the King, and announced a new nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Within the Declaration of Independence, these justified the colonies' break from Britain.
What is the list of grievances against King George III?
After this decree was passed, Colonists were angry. They had just fought in a war for the right to settle on the land west of the Appalachian Mountains, and now their king was blocking them from it.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The Declaration of Independence emphasized that these were inherent to all individuals (except for marginalized groups like women, Native Americans and African Americans).
What are "inalienable rights"?