Acts
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a fee on printed materials, including newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on this date.
What is July 4, 1776?
This wealthy Boston merchant was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, and did so boldly.
Who is John Hancock?
A popular slogan used by colonists who felt unfairly taxed by a government in which they had no elected voice.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
He was the leader of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
These taxes, passed in 1767, placed duties on glass, lead, and tea and led to boycotts by colonists.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This battle, fought in April 1775, was the first military conflict of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
This Virginian was the principal author of the Declaration and used Enlightenment ideas to justify independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1774 meeting was held to respond to the Intolerable Acts and organized boycotts and militias.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This Enlightenment thinker’s ideas about natural rights and the social contract influenced Jefferson's writing.
Who is John Locke?
Passed after the Boston Tea Party, this group of laws was intended to reassert British control over Massachusetts.
What are the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)?
This was the final major battle of the American Revolution, where British General Cornwallis surrendered.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This famous pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, urged American colonists to declare independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
Examples of UNALIENABLE rights.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
This African American enslaved man worked as a spy for the Patriots and provided key information at Yorktown.
Who is James Armistead Lafayette?
The Navigation Acts were an example of this economic policy that viewed colonies as existing to benefit the "mother country."
What is mercantilism?
This American victory in 1777 in New York persuaded France to form an alliance with the colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The Declaration states that governments derive "their just powers" from this source.
What is the consent of the governed?
This wealthy French nobleman fought alongside the Patriots and helped train troops.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?
This philosophical movement inspired the Declaration’s emphasis on individual rights and reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
“For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.”
What is the complaint referring to regarding British restrictions on colonial commerce?
What are the Navigation Acts?
During the winter of 1777–1778, Washington's army suffered from lack of supplies at this location but emerged stronger due to military training.
What is Valley Forge?
Which Enlightenment philosopher most influenced Thomas Jefferson’s political philosophy in the Declaration of Independence? Explain how.
Who is John Locke? Example: Jefferson adapted Locke’s “life, liberty, and property” into “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
British tax acts increased colonial anger not just because of money, what deeper political principle did colonists believe was being violated?
What is “no taxation without representation” the belief that taxes must be approved by their elected representatives?
Colonists protested British tax laws by smuggling, boycotting goods, and forming groups like this secret organization known for tar and feathering tax collectors. (**Name their leader=Deduct points from another team)
What is the Sons of Liberty & Samuel Adams?