Perspectives
This person wants independence from Great Britian.
What is a Patriot?
In order to crack down on smuggling, the British passed a tax on sugar, rum, and molasses to help pay off debt after the French and Indian War.
What is the Sugar Act?
These were a series of laws places mainly on Massachusetts as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This war was fought over the control of North America. On one side were the French and their Native America allies, on the other side were the British and their allies.
What is the French and Indian War?
The British protected us during the French and Indian War, we shouldn't turn our backs on them now.
What is a Loyalist?
This was passed as the first direct tax on the colonists. It taxes paper products including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is The Stamp Act?
The group drafted and published the Declaration of Independence.
What is The Continental Congress?
This act said British soldiers could be stationed in colonists' homes and residents must provide them with food and water.
What is The Quartering Act?
The Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped their tea into the Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
The colonies are in chaos and law and order is threatened.
What is a Loyalist?
This taxes paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea and was passed after the repeal of The Stamp Act. It included the Writs of Assistance.
What is the Townshend Act?
The DOI believes this about equality.
What is, "all men are created equal?"
This law closed Boston harbor to all trade, nothing was allowed in or out of the harbor.
What is the Boston Port Bill?
This was an incident between British soldiers and Bostonians on the night of March 5th. Multiple people were killed and many more injured.
The Boston Massacre
The direct taxes placed on us by Britain are wrong. They go against our rights as Englishmen to have a say in the laws that affect us.
What is a Patriot, OR, what is, "No taxation without representation!"
This reduced the tax on tea for only one British company and kept the tax on everyone else. This made the price of tea on Boston extremely low but hurt local merchants.
What is The Tea Act?
According to the DOI, this is what we can do if the government limits our rights.
What is, "the people have the right to alter or abolish the government if it becomes destructive."
The act stated that all trials were moved to England and people on trial needed to pay the cost of their imprisonment.
What is The Administration of Justice Act?
This is an economic system where the government tried to enrich itself through owning businesses and controlling trade.
What is Mercantilism?
How can we make a living if our ports are closed?
What is a Patriot?
These allowed British officials to search any ship at any time for any reason.
What are Writs of Assistance?
According to the DOI, this is where governments get their power from.
What is, "the people."
OR
What is, "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed?"
This act shut down the Massachusetts government. The government was now run by the British military and private meetings were illegal.
What is The Massachusetts Government Act?
A powerful country that takes over other areas and controls them as colonies for their natural resources. This makes the mother country more powerful.
What is an empire (OR What is imperialism) ?