Road to Revolution
What resource-rich region did Britain and France especially want to control during the French and Indian War?
The Ohio River Valley
Under the Sugar Act, what traditional type of trial were colonists accused of smuggling denied?
A trial with a colonial jury
In what Charles Town building was British tea stored rather than being dumped into the harbor?
The Exchange Building
Who, along with other riders, warned the colonists that British troops were approaching Lexington and Concord?
Paul Revere
What were the colonial militia members who were trained to be ready to fight at a minute's notice called?
Minutemen
What institutions did salutary neglect allow the colonies to develop, including South Carolina's Commons House of Assembly and Virginia's House of Burgesses?
Representative assemblies/colonial governments
What British company gained greater control over the colonial tea trade because of the Tea Act?
The British East India Company
What did Charles Town protesters call the life-sized dummies of stamp officials that they displayed during protests against the Stamp Act?
Effigies
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What new government did South Carolina create to replace its previous lawmaking bodies before independence?
Provincial Congress
What did some colonists do to secretly bring goods into and out of colonial ports to avoid Britain's stricter trade laws?
Smuggling
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What law closed Boston Harbor until the tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party was paid for?
Boston Port Act
What two Patriot leaders did British troops hope to arrest when they marched toward Lexington and Concord?
Samuel Adams and John Hancock
What organization did the Provincial Congress establish to oversee South Carolina's militia and manage the government when Congress wasn't meeting?
Council of Safety
Besides creating their own political traditions, what shared sense of identity did colonists develop during years of greater independence?
What part of the Intolerable Acts allowed British soldiers to be housed in certain privately owned buildings, though not private homes?
Quartering Act
What 99-member organization helped govern South Carolina when the larger group of delegates was not meeting?
The General Committee of 99
Name two of the five South Carolinians selected to represent the colony at the meeting of delegates in Philadelphia.
Christopher Gadsden, Thomas Lynch, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge, and Henry Middleton
According to the Declaration of Independence, what are rights that cannot be taken away or given up called?
Unalienable rights
After the French and Indian War, how did Britain change the way it governed the colonies?
Britain moved away from its hands-off approach and began more strictly enforcing laws and passing new taxes and regulations.
Why were colonists especially angry that Parliament passed taxes without approval from their colonial assemblies?
They believed their own elected representatives should have a voice in decisions about taxation.
What two important exports caused South Carolina's delegates to worry about the First Continental Congress stopping American exports to Britain?
Rice and indigo
What South Carolina delegate requested that the final vote on independence be delayed until the following day?
Edward Rutledge
Why was signing the Declaration of Independence personally dangerous for the delegates who signed it?
Britain considered their actions treason, and if the Revolution failed, they could face severe punishment and lose their property, freedom, or lives.