Taxes & Acts
This 1764 act placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
To protest British taxes, colonists refused to buy British goods. This form of protest was called a...
What is a boycott?
These colonial militia members were ready to fight the British at a moment’s notice.
Who were the Minutemen?
This 1754–1763 war between Britain and France led to Britain’s massive debt and new colonial taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
This economic system made colonies provide raw materials to the mother country and buy its manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
This 1765 law required colonists to pay for an official mark on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
This secret organization led protests against British taxes and intimidated tax collectors.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced colonial leaders with his ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This 1688 event in England replaced King James II with William and Mary, establishing a constitutional monarchy.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The colonists believed government should protect these, not take them away.
What are natural rights?
This set of laws in 1767 taxed imported goods like glass, paint, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
In 1770, tensions turned deadly when British soldiers fired on a crowd in this event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
He organized the Committees of Correspondence, the Boston Tea Party, and was a leader in the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This 1763 decree forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Locke’s idea that governments get their power from the consent of the governed became a key principle in the American Revolution.
What is the social contract?
Many colonists were angered by this act, which forced them to let British soldiers live in their homes or pay for their lodging.
What is the Quartering Act?
Disguised as Native Americans, colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor during this 1773 protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This British leader helped win the French and Indian War and promised to pay for colonial troops, gaining colonial support.
Who is William Pitt?
This meeting in 1774 brought together colonial leaders to discuss Britain’s actions.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This type of government in Britain established the rule of law versus the rule of men.
What is a limited constitutional monarchy?
This series of harsh laws passed in 1774 were meant to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?
This cultural process, seen in political ideas, education, and consumer habits, reflected colonists’ desire to be more “British” — even as tensions with Britain grew.
What is anglicization?
This Boston lawyer defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
Preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were leaders of this movement, which encouraged colonists to question authority and think for themselves.
What is the Great Awakening?
Tensions grew between the colonists and Parliament because they each had this, plus the reality reflected something else.
What are the 3 distinct conceptions of Empire?