Tensions Grow Between the Colonies and Great Britain
This is how the colonists reacted to the Stamp Act.
What is protesting until it is repealed?
Lord Dunmore.
Who is a Loyalist?
An idea in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Great Britain has ruled the colonies unfairly?
A phrase to describe a tactic of the Continental army.
What are surprise attacks?
The part of the British government that passed acts.
What is Parliament?
What is to protest taxes on those items?
The main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is a revolution?
Who wanted Independence?
An outcome of the French and Indian War.
What is the British going deeply into debt.
Rich landowners, governors, and religious leaders.
Who are often Loyalists?
Who are colonial militias and Minutemen?
Not an outcome to the Treaty of Paris.
What is the army freeing the people it enslaved?
Allies helping the Continental army.
What is supplying soldiers and warships?
The purpose of the Proclamation of 1763.
What is to protect the colonists?
Benjamin Franklin trying to persuade the British government.
What is to treat the colonies fairly?
Colonists lighting bonfires and ringing bells for the Declaration.
What is being excited?
Made it hard for the British to replace troops and supplies.
What is their homeland being far away?
An important task facing the Second Continental Congress.
What is organizing the colonies for war?
What is the meeting of 12 delegates from colonies?
A colonist agreeing with the statement: "British laws and taxes are unfair to the colonies".
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
The booklet Common Sense persuading American colonists.
What is to want Independence?
Thousands of Native Americans fighting for Great Britain.
What is the British restricting colonization of their land?
Not contributing to the anger that led to the Boston Massacre.
What is the Boston Tea Party?