An Empire Transformed
An act which ensured that British troops could not be boarded in private homes but required colonial governments to provide barracks and food for them.
What was the Quartering Act of 1765.
The Stamp Act Congress met in this big city
What is New York City?
In 1775, _____ was sitting as the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lords and suggested Congress should acknowledge parliamentary supremacy and provide a permanent source of revenue to help defray the national debt.
Who was William Pitt?
On July 4, 1776 the Congress approved this document, declaring independence from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Who approved the declaration of independence
Who is Congress?
This act ended the practice of colonists evading trade duties by bribing customs officials
What was the Revenue Act?
These people organized protests, formal and informal, violent as well as peaceful and fashioned a compelling ideology of resistance.
Who were the Patriots?
What were the 2 essentials for independence?
What are government & military forces?
In what month was the 2nd continental congress meeting?
What is May?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The British ministry could no longer _____ while they oversaw Atlantic trade
What is manage their own affairs?
Nine colonial assemblies met at this event in New York to challenge the loss of American rights.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
This act provided financial relief for the East India Company, a royally chartered private corporation that served as the instrument of British imperialism.
What was the Tea Act of May 1773?
In this year the army pulled down the fort’s log walls and left the site to the local population.
When was 1772?
These acts were known as the Intolerable Acts by the colonists, and were meant as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party
What were The coercive acts?
This act prohibited colonies from using paper money.
What was the Currency Act?
In Boston, a group of nine British redcoats fired into a crowd and killed five townspeople.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The Tea Act Provided financial relief for this Royally chartered corporation.
What is the East India Company?
These men “Stand at a minute's warning in Case of alarm.”
What are Minutemen?
A final conciliatory appeal to the king by the second Continental Congress, created shortly before the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This percentage of debt consumed the nation’s budget by the end of The Great War for Empire.
What was 60%
What was the name of the group in Boston that burned an effigy of collector Andrew Oliver and destroyed Oliver’s new brick warehouse?
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This restored harmony to the British Empire in 1770.
What was Repeal of the Townshend duties?
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published this book as a rousing call for independence and a republican form of government
What is Common Sense?
What act allowed the practice of Roman Catholicism in Quebec?
What is the Quebec Act?