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This organization organized the Boycott of British goods and public protests against policies such as the Stamp Act.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
The King of Great Britain during the American Revolution
Who is King George III?
This Act caused many Colonists to feel that their liberty had been violated and caused unrest in the colonies. It was the direct cause of the assault on Thomas Hutchinson's home on August 26 1765
What is the Stamp Act?
The Sugar act Strengthened this act which colonists had often evaded
What is the Navigation Act?
The day congress formally declared the United States an independent Nation.
The Reliance of American goods started in this city and spread to Southern Colonies, becoming a symbol of American Resistance
What is Boston?
The person known as "The First Martyr of the American Revolution"
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The theory that each member in Parliament represented the entire empire and not just their own district.
What is virtual representation?
This is the amount of money lost from the Boston Tea Party.
This branch of France's military played a key role in the Battle of Yorktown.
What is the French navy?
Many American Soldiers did not lack experience as they have either undergone militia training or fought in this war.
What is the Seven Years War?
Thomas Jefferson drew on this author's writings when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
General search warrants that enabled customs officials to search anywhere for smuggled goods.
What are writs of assistance?
The name the Americans gave the Act that closed off the Boston Port until the tea lost from the Boston Tea Party was completely paid for and allowed soldiers to be lodged in private homes.
What are the Coercive Acts? or What are the Intolerable Acts? (Vocab)
One of the members of the American Delegation who concluded the Treaty of Paris.
What is France?
The British Commander at the start of the revolutionary war.
Who is Sir William Howe?
An Act which reduced the tax on molasses but also strengthened admiralty courts, which charged smugglers without a jury.
What is the Sugar Act?
This proclamation offered freedom to any slave who escaped and fought for the British.
What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation? (Vocab)
A merchant from Massachusetts who was president of the Second Continental Congress and also was the first to sign the declaration of Independence with a signature so big that according to legend he declared that King George III could read it without his spectacles.
Who is John Hancock? (Significant Figures)
This document inspired other revolutionaries in different countries to write their own version of it, all the way to modern history.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This philosopher coined the term "The shot heard around the world"
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
The rallying cry of the opponents of the Stamp Act and colonists who believed that the British had no right to tax them at all since they were unrepresented in Parliament (Answer with the exact quote)
What is "No taxation without representation"? or "No taxation without Representation".
The name of the Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized the British Government.
What is the Pamphlet Common Sense?
The commander of the American army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?