Porpoise of Governance
Allowing for free and open trade is a staple of this purpose of Government. Give me money!
What is promote the economic system?
These were a group of acts that Parliament deemed coercive and the colonists deemed insufferable? Unbearable? Indefatigable?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Apparently there was not enough of this to go around the Earth. Causing conflict and ultimately war.
What is land?
This was the name of the group colonists gave to themselves after Parliament referred to them as children.
What are the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
The first armed conflict between a colonial militia and soldiers of Great Britain.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The rule of law is held only by a few powerful people in this system of government. Do as we say, or else!
What is authoritarian system?
Don't think of this as a tax. Think of it as a seal of approval on paper products that everyone uses everyday all the time everywhere.
What is the Stamp Act?
A colonist may have sung "get out of my Kentucky home" if this act was in place during the French and Indian War.
What is the Quartering Act?
A loyalist would consider this monarch their legitimate ruler. Although I'm sure many prefer cookies with tea rather than pretzels.
Who is George III?
The British had the largest of these in the world. Numbering 50,000.
What is an army?
That was easy. All we had to do was fill out some paperwork and now the speed limit has been changed to 67 everywhere. This kind of non-violent change is great!
What is working inside the system?
When tar and feathering just ain't enough, go ahead and toss it all overboard might describe the protest to this act.
What is the Tea Act?
Keeping colonists close to the coast to control them with red coats was a purpose of this.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
If you favor a separation from England and the colonies' right to rule themselves you just might be a...
What is patriot?
The colonists may have known the land better, yet they lacked this which would have helped them know what to do when they got there.
What is training?
People having an input into their governance is the porpoise of this type of political system.
What is a democratic system?
Taxes and acts and acts and taxes coming from Parliament rather than Colonial Assemblies led to this phrase still prominent on license plates today
What is "No taxation without representation?"
The British created new taxes on their colonies as a reaction to accumulating a lot of this during the war.
What is debt?
Thomas Paine's thrilling and widely read expose that consists of extremely convincing reasons that for England it is "too late to apologize."
What is Common Sense?
Mercenaries! I nearly lost my head when I heard the British were enlisting this group of people to bolster their ranks.
What are Hessians?
The Declaration of Independence and the subsequent American Revolution led to this kind of political change. Now the category is called the dolphin of government.
What is create a new system?
This type of protest was promoted throughout the colonies and included making and buying local goods rather than buying from bad lands far away.
What is boycott?
By enlisting colonists, such as George Washington, to fight the French was an example of this dolphin of government.
What is prepare for a common defense?
Two of these occurred consisting of representative from the colonies. One sent a petition. One sent a break-up letter.
What are the 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses?
Time heals all wounds. This population of peoples who fought against the British for six or seven years of war now was allied with them to protect their lands.
Who are the Native Americans?