Causes & Policies
This economic system expected colonies to be the purchasers of manufactured goods from the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Known as 'the shot heard round the world', these were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
The grievance 'For Imposing Taxes on us without our Consent' refers to this famous rallying cry.
What is 'No taxation without representation'?
Issued in 1776, this document dissolved political bands with Britain and stated that all men are created equal.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Unalienable rights are fundamental rights guaranteed to people naturally, possessed at this moment in a person's life.
What is birth?
This conflict left Britain in debt, prompting them to impose new taxes on the colonists to help cover the cost.
What is the French and Indian War?
Passed in 1765, this act required an official stamp on diplomas, contracts, and playing cards showing a tax was paid.
What is the Stamp Act?
This battle is considered the turning point of the war, helping to convince France to ally with the American forces.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The grievance 'For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us' was a direct complaint about this British Act.
What is the Quartering Act?
This document served as the very first constitution for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
According to the Declaration of Independence, the three unalienable rights are life, liberty, and this.
What is the pursuit of happiness?
British economic policies required taxes to be paid in this metal, which was very limited in the colonies.
What is silver?
This 1763 law forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
British forces surrendered at this battle after the capture of two British generals, including Lord Cornwallis.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The Declaration complained that the King deprived colonists, in many cases, of the benefits of this legal proceeding.
What is a Trial by Jury?
Colonial leaders organized this gathering in 1774 to petition the British king and organize a boycott.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This philosopher wrote in 1690 that no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, and possessions.
Who is John Locke?
Britain enacted these laws requiring colonial goods like gold and raw materials to be brought to Britain first before selling abroad.
What are the Acts of Trade and Navigation (or Navigation Acts)?
These acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Washington took his army to this location for the harsh winter of 1777, where they trained and became a professional army.
What is Valley Forge?
The King repeatedly dissolved these colonial bodies 'for opposing with manly firmness his invasion on the rights of the people.'
What are Representative Houses (or Legislative bodies)?
The Declaration of Independence listed these complaints against the King of England.
What are grievances?
Unalienable rights are fundamentally different from other rights because they are naturally possessed and NOT granted by this.
What is the government?
Closing the port of Boston and restricting trade to Britain only were part of the strict enforcement of these 1774 acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
Britain argued that the colonies had this type of representation in Parliament, though the colonists demanded direct representation.
What is virtual representation?
This 1783 document officially recognized American independence and extended boundaries to Canada, the Mississippi River, and Florida.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
The King was accused of affecting to render the military independent of, and superior to, this specific power.
What is the Civil power?
This document from May 1776 listed rights such as the enjoyment of life and liberty, and means of acquiring property.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
This 1789 European document also famously listed natural and unalienable rights, inspired by American declarations.
What is the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish Boston citizens for their participation in this specific 1774 event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?