Acts
The Navigation Acts prohibited colonists from doing this.
What is trading with countries other than Britain?
Many American democratic ideas originated in this document.
What is the Magna Carta?
This was the ultimate goal of the Sons of Liberty.
What is independence from Britain?
Britain pulled out a win in the French and Indian War because this Native American group sided with them.
Who is the Iroquois League?
This was the first major turning point in how colonists felt about the British government.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The Sugar Act lowered taxes on many goods, but still angered colonists for this reason.
What is increased enforcement of tax collection and/or violation of Magna Carta?
Democracy means this.
What is a form of government where citizens get to vote on laws and leaders.
Colonists tried to get rid of tax collectors by doing this.
What is tarring and feathering?
This is the nickname given to soldiers in the British military.
What is Redcoat?
Committees of Correspondence were formed to do this.
What is secretly pass patriotic messages/ideas from colony to colony?
What is the Quartering Act?
Colonists initially formed their own local governments for this reason.
What is Britain's inability to enforce laws from overseas?
The Sons of Liberty tried to make sure British taxes were not profitable by organizing these.
What are boycotts?
This is the nickname given to the members of American militias who could assemble at a moment's notice.
What are Minutemen?
At the First Continental Congress, colonial delegates met to discuss these.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Colonists protested this tax on British paper at a meeting where many delegates gathered.
What is the Stamp Act?
This idea in the Magna Carta frustrated colonists because it was being ignored by Parliament.
What is citizens get to vote on laws and taxes?
Paul Revere and William Dawes were able to accomplish this by using a secret warning system.
What is give Minutemen time to prepare for the arrival of the British and/or stop the oncoming troops at Lexington?
These are the nicknames given to people fighting for independence and people who want to remain British subjects, respectively.
What are Patriots and Loyalists?
The Proclamation of 1763 limited colonial expansion past this geographic feature.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
The Intolerable Acts did these four things.
What is shut down Boston Harbor, disband MA's government, amend the Quartering Act, and put British criminals on trial in different places.
Mercantilism caused Britain to believe these things about the economy.
What are 1. Wealth is determined by gold/silver 2. Governments must make laws that are good for the economy. 3. You must sell more than you buy?
The Sons of Liberty planned the Boston Tea Party for these two purposes.
What is to protest the Tea Act and to provoke a response from Parliament?
Civic Virtue means this.
What is the belief that leaders and citizens should do what is best for everyone?
The Sons of Liberty did this after the Boston Massacre.
What is twist the story to make the colonists seem more like victims to make the British look bad?