Laws/Acts
People
Battles/Fights
Definitions
Parties/Documents
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1773; Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies-underming colonial tea merchants;led to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act
100
King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III
100
A 1775 conflict between colonial minutement and British soldiers attempting to take teh colonist large store of arms and began the Revolutionary War. "Shot heard round the world"
What is the Battles of Lexington and Concord
100
A refusal to buy or use goods and services.
What is a boycott
100
Comittees of Correspondence, organized by patriot leader Samuel Adams, was a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies. They provided the organization necessary to unite the colonies in oppsition to Parliment. The committees sent delegates to the First Continental Congress.
What is the Committees of Correspondence.
200
A list of complaints about the British King (King George). "For quartering large bodies of armed troops around us" 'For cutting off our trades with all parts of the world" " For imposing taxes on us witout our consent"
What is the List of Grievances for the Declaration of Independence
200
American Poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784). She wrote poems in support for the Partriot cause. Example: "His Excellencey General Washington"
Who is Phillis Wheatley
200
1770; 5 civilians who were part of a mob killed by British soldiers; depicted as a brutal slaughter in colonial newspapers by Paul Revere's engraving
What is the Boston Massacre
200
Also known as Tories, the term refers to those Americans who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution.
What is loyalists
200
The part of British government that makes the laws for the British people. American colonists were not represented here.
What is British Parliment.
300
This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance. It also closed down the Boston Harbor until the MAssachusetts colonist paid for the ruined tea. Also forced Bostonians to shelter soilders in their own homes.
What is Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
300
He wrote Common Sense, published on January 1, 1776, to encourage the colonies to seek independence. It spoke out against the unfair treatment of the colonies by the British government and was instrumental in turning public opinion in favor of the Revolution.
Who is Thomas Paine
300
A speech given in 1775 to the Virginia Convention of Delegates. Taken from the papers known as the Virginia Resolves. He states that he would rather die than live without freedom.
What is Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or Give me Death Speech.
300
Life, Liberty, and property. As defined by John Locke
What is Natural Rights
300
May, 1775, America's government during the Revolutionary War. It met in 1776 and drafted and signed the Decleration of Independence, which justified the Revolutionary War and declared that the colonies should be independent of Britain.
What is the Second Continental Congress
400
1765; law that taxed printed goods, including playing cards, documents, newspapers,etc.
What is Stamp Act
400
17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke
400
The French and Indian war was very costly. Therefore, the British imposed taxed upon the colonies so they could help pay for the war effort. However, the colonists had no representatives in government. "No taxation without representation"
What is how the french and indian war lead to a conflict with the American Colonies.
400
A contract in which the government agrees to protect the natural rights of citizens and infringe on those rights as little as possible. What Jefferson argues in the Declaration in Independence is that England had, essentially broken its social contract with the colonists through a "long Train of Abuses and Usurpations"
What is Social Contract
400
On July 8th, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Coercive Acts, ended the tacation without representation policies). It was rejected by Parliament, which in Decenmber 1775 passed the American Prohibitory forbidding all further trade with the colonies.
What is the Olive Branch Petition
500
(REvenue Act of 1764) Parliament's tax on refined sugar and many other colonial products; the first tax designed solely to raise revenue for Britain.
What is the Sugar Act
500
A women who took part in politics during the American REvolution. She wrote poems and plays that supported independence and convinced others to support the patriot movement.
Who is Mercy Otis Warren
500
A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbour.
What is Boston Tea Party
500
A plan, created in 1754 by Benjamin Franklin, which called for all of the colonies to meet in Albany NY to establish a united group. It did not pass but this was the first attempt to unite the colonies
What is the Albany Plan of the Union
500
Written by Patrick Henry asknowledged parliments right to make laws, only dusputed taxation without represenation, created unity within the colonies
What is Stamp Act Resolves
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