Slavery in the Colonies
The name given to the journey enslaved Africans took from Africa to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
The law that allowed British redcoats to stay in colonial homes for free.
Quartering Act
The most famous protest of all were colonists snuck onto a British ship and destroyed all the goods on it in the famous harbor.
Boston Tea Party
This colonial region had warm weather year round and extremely fertile soil for cash crops.
Southern colonies
This is what we compared the Declaration of Independence to.
A "break up" letter
The name given to the trade network between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that brought African slaves to the colonies.
Triangle Trade
The Act that led to the Boston Tea Party.
Tea Act
Colonists claimed Great Britain was acting all powerful and in an unfair way which they called this word.
Tyranny
This colonial region relied on manufacturing for their economy.
New England colonies
The three main American values demonstrated in the Declaration of Independence.
Freedom, Equality, and Justice
The name given to people who were fighting to end slavery.
Abolitionists
The law that prevented colonists from being able to cross an imaginary boundary line at the Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation of 1763
The actions of the colonists just before the Boston Massacre took place.
Throwing bricks and snowballs at redcoats.
The colonial region that was home to the Quakers.
Middle colonies
The number of grievances or complaints that the colonists wrote in the Declaration of Independence.
27
The year that African slaves were first brought to the Americas.
1619
Series of taxes that were used to bribe colonial judges and governors giving Britain direct control over justice and laws.
Townshend Acts
The name for the violent protest/actions some colonists performed on tax collectors in the colonies.
Tar and Feather
This region was home to the settlement of Pilgrims at Plymouth and eventually grew to include 5 large colonies.
New England colonies
This word was used in the Declaration to describe rights as being something that no one can take away from you.
unalienable or inalienable
The estimated number of African people forced to relocate to the Americas via the slave trade.
12 million
Colonists avoided this tax by smuggling in goods and bribing tax collectors.
Sugar Act
The phrase colonists used to summarize how unfair they felt the British government was being by creating laws without their voice.
"No taxation without representation!"
The two nicknames given to the middle colonial region due to the culture and economy.
"The Breadbasket" and a "Melting Pot"
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson