Taxes
Why were the colonist mad about taxation.
Because they didn't have representation.
Why did the colonist oppose the Quartering Act?
Violated rights as Englishmen
Who was the French and Indian war against?
French & Native Americans vs. British and Native Americans
What's the difference between a loyalist and a patriot?
Patriots were pro colonies
Loyalists were pro Great Britain
Where was the first battle of the American Revolution?
Lexington and Concord.
What is Mercantilism.
Discouraged colonies from producing manufactured goods.
Encouraged colonies to buy from mother country
Increased the wealth of the mother country
Colonies could not trade with other countries
How did the Navigation Acts create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?
By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries.
In the Proclamation of 1763, which geographic featured did the British use as the boundary of approved settlement?
Appalachian Mountains
What is salutary neglect?
A country not enforcing parliamentary laws which caused the colonies to develop their own representative governments and laws.
Why was the interaction between the minutemen and the British troops at Lexington and Concord significant?
It signaled the beginning of the fighting in the American Revolution
What was the main reason Parliament passed the Tax Acts in the colonies?
To recover costs of defending the colonies.
Why did the colonial Acts sent by the British contribute to the start of the American Revolution?
Colonists felt their rights as Englishmen were being violated.
Benjamin Franklin's Albany plan of Union is significant because?
It called for the individual colonies to unite together in order to strengthen their military capabilities.
Paul Revere's rendering of the Boston Massacre was designed to...
Persuade colonists the King of England was against them
What led to the start of the American Revolution
Colonist being taxed without representation
Didn't think they should have to pay for French and Indian War debt
What resulted from Parliament passing the Stamp Act of 1765?
Colonists organized boycotts of British goods.
The Intolerable Acts led to the American Revolutionary War because...
British colonists objected to the Proclamation of 1763 because they..
resented the limits it imposed on westward expansion.
What is civil disobedience?
active public refusal of citizens to obey certain laws or commands but authority to protest injustice and bring about change.
Who was elected to lead the minutemen by the 2nd Continental Congress?
George Washington
List all of the Acts/Taxes we have studied that were put into place for the colonist by Parliament. There are 8
Navigation Acts, Sugar Act 1764, Stamp Act 1765, Stamp Act 1765, Quartering Act 1765, Towshend Act 1767, Tea Act 1773, Coercive/Intolerable Act
How did the American colonies react to the enforcement of the Intolerable Acts?
By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance
What main factors contributed to tension between France and Britain before the French and Indian War?
France believed they had control of the Ohio River Valley.
The ORV had abundant resources they both wanted to control
Why did the Declaratory Act anger my colonists.
It declared Parliament had complete authority over the colonies without they consent.
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