Acts
What act placed a tax on foreign sugar, molasses, outlawed foreign rum, and placed new taxes on wine and coffee?
The Sugar Act
Which person used the phrase "No taxation without representation"?
John Otis
Name the five people who decided what was included in the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston & Roger Sherman
Meeting where colonists discussed the concerns about British policies and British responses to colonial grievances.
The First Continental Congress
This section lists the colonists' unalienable rights.
The Preamble
What act limited colonists' trade and required them to buy all goods from Great Britain?
The Restraining Acts
Loyalists & Patriots
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Colonists dumped 300 chests of British tea into the Boston harbor.
The Boston Tea Party
This section stated that the Declaration will declare the reasons for independence.
Introduction
What act required colonists to quarter, or house, and feed British soldiers stationed in the colonies?
The Quartering Act
This person is responsible for the concept of natural law.
John Locke
What date did Congress vote in favor of independence from the British?
July 2, 1776
March 1770: Growing tensions and conflicts between British troops and colonists over the enforcement of taxes, especially the Townshend Acts led to this event:
The Boston Massacre
This section lists the colonists' grievances against the king of England.
The Body
This act required colonists to buy a government stamp for almost every paper document they used?
The Stamp Act
This person was inspired by John Locke when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
What are the four sections of the Declaration of Independence?
the Introduction, the Preamble, the Body & the Conclusion
Meeting where colonies met to discuss wanting independence and a democratic government.
Second Continental Congress
This section formally declares the colonies as independent states.
The Conclusion.
This act placed taxes on paint, lead, glass, paper, and tea imported by the colonies?
The Townshend Acts
Who is responsible for the phrase "Give me liberty or give me death"?
Patrick Henry
What document limited the Authority of King John?
The Magna Carta
The French and Indian War caused this event.
The American Revolution