Introduction
Finish the saying:
Rush said he “felt as if he walked on sacred ground” with “emotions that...."
"I cannot describe"
Britain had largely failed to define the colonies’ relationship to the empire and institute a coherent what?
program of imperial reform
In March 1770, Parliament repealed all of the new duties except the one on what?
Tea
Tensions between the colonies and England eased for a time after what happened?
the Boston Massacre
The most important immediate consequence of declaring independence was the creation of state constitutions in what year(s)?
1776 & 1777
(2 Choices) What kind of significant emotional tie did the colonists develop toward the British?
Their Monarchy and Constitution
Whigs argued that economic growth, not raising taxes, would solve what?
the national debt
What act sought to combat widespread smuggling of molasses in New England by cutting the duty in half but increasing enforcement?
The Sugar Act
In 1773, Parliament passed what act?
Regulating Act
The Continental Congress ratified the Articles of --- in 1781.
Confederation
To successfully rebel against Britain, however, required more than a few dozen..what?
Founding fathers
Britain was at war from the War of the Spanish Succession at the start of the century through what war in 1763?
the Seven Years’ War
What month and year did Parliament passed the Stamp Act?
March 1765
The ladies of --- were not alone in their desire to support the war effort by what means they could.
Edenton
Approximately how many loyalists ended up leaving America because of the Revolution
60,000
The “founding fathers” instigated and fought a revolution to secure independence from Britain, but they did not fight that revolution to create a what?
“democracy.”
(2 Choices) In the 1740s, two seemingly conflicting bodies of thought——began to combine in the colonies and challenge older ideas about authority.
the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
The second type of resistance to the Stamp Act was what?
Economic
How many acts did Parliament pass the following spring?
4
In what year did thousands of formerly enslaved Loyalists flee with the British army?
1783
Revolutionaries justified their new nation with radical new ideals that changed the course of history and sparked a global, what?
Age of revolution
What two people had empowered individuals to question authority and to take their lives into their own hands?
Locke and Whitefield
Where did riots break out in?
Boston
Most importantly, the Congress issued a document known as the?
“Continental Association.”
Many Native American groups had sided with the British, what are a few examples?
Shawnee, Creek, Cherokee, Iroquois