Acts
This law created a tax for the colonists on paper products.
Stamp Act.
This was the religious movement that changed the way Christianity was practiced in America in the 1740s-1770s.
Great Awakening.
The Revolutionary War ended with a British surrender after a battle at this location.
Yorktown, Virginia.
The Boston Massacre resulted in this many colonial deaths.
5.
This was Lord Dunmore's position (office) during the Revolutionary War.
Royal Governor of Virginia.
This was the reason the British Empire taxed the American colonies in the 1760s and 1770s.
War debt from the French and Indian War.
This was one of the popular Christian preachers that broke away from traditional religion during the Great Awakening.
George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards.
This battle was a turning point for the Revolutionary cause, as it proved the British army could be defeated in battle and prevented the British armies from uniting to split the colonies in half.
Saratoga.
This was the cause for the tension between British soldiers and Bostonians in the 1760s and 1770s. (think population)
There were 4,000 British soldiers in Boston, which had 16,000 people overall.
Colonists also disagreed with the reason for the presence of the redcoats.
Document F of the American Revolution SAC assignment contained an account of George Washington doing what to Native Americans?
Ordering the destruction of one of their villages for supporting the British.
This law created outrage by stationing British soldiers in private homes in the colonies.
Quartering Act.
This was one Christian denomination that would be considered "Old Lights" and one that would be considered "New Lights."
Old Lights: Catholicism, Episcopalianism, Anglicanism, Congregationalism (Puritans)
New Lights: Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians
The American victory at Saratoga gained the Patriots this important asset in fighting the British.
French support.
This group of colonists refused to fight for independence and often fought alongside the British to keep the colonies part of the British Empire.
Loyalists.
Lord Dunmore added a new dimension to the War of Independence when he made this declaration about the property of the rebels.
Declared that slaves leaving their rebellious masters could earn freedom by joining the British army.
The Declaratory Act was meant by the British to express this kind of relationship with the colonies.
The subservience of the colonies to the mother country (laws of Parliament applied to the colonies).
These were the philosophical ideas derived from John Locke during the Enlightenment that Thomas Jefferson included in the Declaration of Independence.
Natural rights: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
This American war hero turned against the Revolutionary cause and tried to give up the fortress at West Point to the British.
Benedict Arnold.
This was one of Thomas Paine's arguments for American independence in his famous pamphlet Common Sense.
The colonies were geographically too far from Britain; kings could be tyrants; etc.
The date of the Declaration of Independence.
July 4, 1776.
What are two ways the colonists resisted new taxes from the British?
Committees of correspondence, formed the Sons of Liberty, signed Declaration of Independence, Boston Tea Party, etc.
This describes the belief of Predestination.
A Christian belief from John Calvin arguing that God elects certain souls to join Him in Heaven upon death.
The French helped the United States win the War of Independence for this reason.
They wanted to reduce British power and influence, partially revenge for their loss in the French and Indian War.
This is a theory for the cause of the Boston Massacre with a solid piece of evidence.
Evidence: colonists threw snowballs, colonists dared redcoats to fire, British officer gave order to fire in picture, etc.
Natural rights derive from this source.
God.