Taxations
Acts of the British Parliament required local British colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food.
Quartering Act
The ___ Act was expanded to let British troops in private homes.
Quartering Act
The social contract promoted what two things?
Liberty and equality
The ____ suffered 200 casualties and embarrassment from losing the Lexington & Concord battle
The British
____ and the colonists battled in the American Revolution.
Britain
To reduce the massive amount of tea held by the British East India Company, tea became cheaper.
Tea Act
Closed the port of Boston, prohibiting trade in and out of the harbor until the destroyed tea was paid for.
Port Act
Thomas Paines "common sense" argued that colonies should become ____
Independent states
The two groups who fought in Lexington & Concord
Britain and Massachusetts Colonists
Thousands of ____ farmers came from the New England states and Virginia, to join George Washington's militia. (Also a name for New England football team)
Patriots
Also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764) British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies.
Sugar Act
This act established Roman Catholicism as the official religion of Quebec also set up a gov. without a representative assembly and extended Quebec's boundary to the Ohio River.
Quebec Act
____ was at its peak in the mid-18th century and had fundamentally altered society.
Massachusett farmers fortified ____ on June 17th, 1775.
Bunker Hill
5,000 ___ joined and fought as Patriots, and were given freedom if they joined.
African Americans
The first internal tax on colonists by the British Parliament, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
Stamp Act
Reduced the power of the Massachusetts legislature while increasing the power of the royal governor. This act allowed the royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in Great Britain instead of in the colonies.
Massachusetts Government Act
____ is best known for being the proponent of limited gov.
John Locke
The question that emerged from Lexington & Concord.
"Who shot first"
Supported the British because they promised limited colonial settlements in the West.
Native Americans
By the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It asserted that Parliament had the right to tax the colonies in all cases.
Declaratory Act
This act allowed the royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in Great Britain instead of in the colonies.
Administration of Justice Act
____ was the belief that we come to knowledge through the use of logic, and thus independently of sensory experience.
Rationalism
Paul Revere and ___ warned the colonists of the British march toward Lexington.
William Dawes
Known as the ____ were colonists who maintained their allegiance to the king, 60,000 colonists fought with British soldiers.
Tories