Economic Policies
What economic policy guided Britain's view that its American colonies existed primarily to enrich and strengthen the mother country?
Mercantilism!
Passed in 1765, which act required legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards to carry an official tax stamp?
The Stamp Act
What phrase or principle captured the primary colonial objection to parliamentary taxation without representatives in London?
"No taxation without representation" (or lack of legal representation in Parliament)
In 1770, five colonists were killed in a famous clash between a street mob and British soldiers guarding a customs house in Massachusetts—an event patriots labeled what?
The Boston Massacre
"Nothing is more American than Texas." Who in this class wrote this on their Guess Who questionnaire?
Mikayla
What series of British laws tightly controlled trade in the colonies by requiring goods to be transported on British ships and limiting colonial trade with foreign nations?
The Navigation Acts
In 1774, representatives from eleven colonies met in Philadelphia to form which major organization to coordinate resistance against the Intolerable Acts?
The First Continental Congress
French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and English philosopher John Locke both argued that government authority rests on an agreement between the ruler and the people known by what term?
Social Contract
Benjamin Franklin published an engraving of a snake cut into pieces with the caption “JOIN, or DIE” beneath it. What argument was he trying to make?
The colonists must unite to defeat the British!
Who spent the summer listening to High Watah and also wrote "Nothing is more American than fast food" on the Guess Who questionnaire?
Konnor
Passed in 1764, which act actually reduced the duty on foreign molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, but angered colonists due to stricter enforcement and trial in naval courts?
The Sugar Acts
What series of taxes passed in 1767 targeted imported items such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea?
The Townshend Duties (or Townshend Acts)
Members of the British Parliament who favored increasing the legislature's power and sympathized with colonial concerns were known by what political label?
Whigs (as opposed to Tories)
On April 19, 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired when British troops marched to seize colonial military supplies in which Massachusetts town?
Concord (fighting began on the green at Lexington)
If he could only eat one food for the rest of his life he would eat ... tomatoes. He spent the summer listening to Rihanna.
Finn
Which wealthy colonial merchant amassed much of his fortune through smuggling to avoid high British taxes and trade restrictions?
John Hancock
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed harsh punitive measures in 1774 closing Boston Harbor—what did the colonists call these acts?
The Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)
John Locke argued that all individuals in a "state of nature" possess natural rights, which include the preservation of their lives, liberty, and what third key right?
The right to Property!
Who was appointed commander-in-chief of colonial forces by the Second Continental Congress in May 1775?
George Washington
If she were an article of furniture she would be a lamp. "Nothing is more American than food portions."
Maila
Which popular alcoholic beverage in the colonies was made from imported molasses, making the Sugar Act particularly concerning to colonial distillers and consumers?
Rum
What group of radical patriots organized protests and harassed local tax collectors, famously attacking the house of stamp agent Andrew Oliver in Boston?
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams argued that Massachusetts colonists were not subject to Parliament's authority because the original settlers had made a compact directly with whom?
The King / The Monarch / The British Crown
What group of local Massachusetts militia members (who were specially trained to be ready to assemble, deploy, and fight at a moment's notice) assembled on the village green in Lexington to confront advancing British troops on April 19, 1775?
The Minutemen
When asked what this person would be doing if they weren't at school, they wrote: "Hmm, I would probably be diving or cooking or cruising." If they could only eat one food for the rest of their lives, this person would eat Yogurt.
Pono