Name That Act
During a protest at a customs' house against new taxes, this event ended with the killing of five American colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This event saw over 300 chests of tea thrown into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This idea states that no one is above the law.
What is the rule of law?
According to John Locke, governments mostly exist to protect ...
What are rights?
Passed in response to colonial protests against British troops, this Act required colonists to provide housing and pay for food for newly arrived troops.
What is the Quartering Act?
This event led to new territories for the British.
What is the French and Indian War?
This idea states that people give up some freedom to the government in exchange for protection and safety.
What is the social contract?
This pamphlet helped many colonists realize that independence wasn't just a need, it was a want.
What is Common Sense?
What idea does this quote refer to: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
What is "unalienable rights"?
This Act made colonists buy a stamp for every piece of paper purchased.
What is the Stamp Act?
This Act gave Parliament "full power and authority to make laws" about the American colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
These are things that all humans have and cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights? (individual rights)
In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson wrote that we have certain unalienable rights, which are ...
What is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
What idea does this quote refer to: “ … That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed … “
What is the social contract?
This Act had new taxes on glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Colonists did not like this act that lowered the cost of British tea, as they saw it as just another way to try and tax them.
What is the Tea Act?
This principle states that people are the ultimate source of authority for government.
What is popular sovereignty?
These allowed soldiers to search ships, shops, and private homes for smuggled goods.
What are "writs of assistance"?
What idea does this quote refer to: “ … That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men … “
What is limited government?"
One consequence of these Acts was the closing of Boston Harbor to punish the colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This was the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This idea tells us that all people should be able to have a trial heard by people in their own community.
What is the right to trial by jury?
What is "taxation without representation"?
What idea does this quote refer to: “ … That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
What is the right to resist a tyrannical government?