Complaints
What tax was placed on newspapers, playing cards, and legal papers in 1765?
The Stamp Act
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.
What name was given to colonists who wanted independence?
Patriots
Which city hosted the first meeting of colonial leaders to coordinate a response to Britain?
Philadelphia
What document explained why the colonies were separating from Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
What act allowed British officials to search homes and seize goods to collect taxes?
The Townshend Acts
What does "No taxation without representation" mean?
Colonists believed they shouldn’t be taxed by a government in which they had no vote.
What name was given to colonists loyal to the British king?
Loyalists
Who was chosen as the commander of the Continental Army in 1775?
George Washington
Which Enlightenment philosopher influenced the Declaration’s ideas about natural rights?
John Locke
What was the name of the law that forced colonists to house British soldiers?
The Quartering Act
Refusing to obey certain laws as a form of protest.
What is civil disobedience?
What term described colonists who didn’t choose a side during the revolution?
Fence-sitters or neutrals
What document acted as a temporary constitution before the U.S. Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What 1773 law allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies?
The Tea Act
A violent public punishment used on British tax collectors.
What is tarring and feathering?
Which pamphlet by Thomas Paine inspired colonists to join the Patriot cause?
Common Sense
Groups that spread news and persuaded colonists to support independence.
What was the role of Committees of Correspondence?
What three “unalienable rights” are listed in the Declaration of Independence?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
What 1766 law declared that Britain could make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”?
The Declaratory Act
A 1770 event where British soldiers killed five colonists during a street confrontation.
What was the Boston Massacre?
About how many Loyalists fled the United States after the Revolutionary War?
About 80,000
A pamphlet that persuaded many colonists to support independence.
What was the role of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
What principle states that governments get their power from the consent of the governed?
Popular sovereignty