Colonial Reactions to Britain
This British policy shift after 1763 most directly caused the colonies’ anger toward Great Britain.
What are British efforts to consolidate control over the colonies?
This English philosopher’s ideas about natural rights influenced the Revolution and the Declaration.
Who is John Locke?
This rebellion over hard currency taxes in the 1780s showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This intellectual movement most influenced the language used by enslaved people when petitioning for freedom in the 1770s.
What is the Enlightenment?
This individual became well-known and reliable as a military leader after the Seven Years' War.
Who is George Washington?
This was the war Benjamin Franklin referred to when he said the colonies supplied 25,000 men and spent millions.
What is the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)?
This January 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued that Britain was hurting, not helping, the colonies economically.
What is Common Sense?
This group feared excessive centralized authority and opposed the original Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Petitioners against slavery argued that slavery violated this core belief expressed in Revolutionary rhetoric.
What is the idea of natural rights / equality?
This 1777 battle convinced the French to ally with the colonists.
➡️ What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Colonists objected to this 1765 law because it taxed them without representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
Thomas Paine’s arguments helped promote this major political goal.
What is independence from Britain?
Hamilton argued in Federalist No. 15 that the Articles were weak because the government couldn’t do this.
➡️ What is raise money/levy taxes?
What was the name of the main legislation that allowed for federal troops to apprehend runaway slaves?
what is the fugitive slave act
This revolt by whiskey distillers challenged federal taxation under the new Constitution.
➡️ What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1763 law prohibited settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These ideas spread from Europe to America and emphasized reason, liberty, and rights.
What are Enlightenment ideals?
The U.S. added this in response to demands for individual rights after ratifying the Constitution.
➡️ What is the Bill of Rights?
Some enslaved people gained their freedom during the Revolution by siding with this opposing power that promised emancipation.
Who are the British?
This was the main cause of the Seven Years’ War in North America.
➡️ What is competition between Britain and France for territory?
Britain tried to pay off its war debt by doing this to the colonies.
What is increasing taxes on colonial goods?
This foreign nation decided to aid the colonists after the Battle of Saratoga.
Who are the French?
This document first attempted to form a national government in the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Before the Revolution, this southern region imported more enslaved Africans than Virginia and Maryland.
What are the Carolinas and Georgia?
This policy tried to stop colonists from expanding west to avoid Native conflicts after the war.
➡️ What is the Proclamation of 1763?