Road to Revolution
This 1763 British policy restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Life, liberty, and other rights people possess simply because they are human are known by this term.
What are natural rights?
Washington’s surprise victory here after crossing the Delaware helped improve American morale.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
This commander’s greatest contribution was keeping the Continental Army together even when victory in individual battles was unlikely.
Who is George Washington?
Members of this group supported boycotts, produced homespun goods, and often managed farms and businesses during the war.
Who are women?
Britain began taxing the colonies more heavily after 1763 largely because of this financial problem.
What is debt from the French and Indian War?
This theory says government exists because people agree to give it power in exchange for protection of their rights.
What is the social contract?
During this difficult winter encampment, Baron von Steuben helped train the Continental Army into a more disciplined force.
What is Valley Forge?
Britain could capture cities but struggled to control the colonies because of this major physical factor.
What is American geography / the large territory?
Colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the Revolution were known by this name.
Who are Loyalists?
Colonists used this phrase to argue that Parliament could not fairly tax them without their political representation.
What is “taxation without representation”?
The Declaration says legitimate government gets its authority from this source.
What is the consent of the governed?
This American victory convinced France that the Patriots had a realistic chance to win the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Capturing major colonial cities did not guarantee British victory because Britain still had to accomplish this larger military objective.
What is destroy or permanently defeat the Patriot war effort?
Many members of this group supported Britain because British policies had attempted to limit westward colonial settlement.
Who are Native Americans?
These harsh British laws passed after the Boston Tea Party helped convince the colonies to organize the First Continental Congress.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet argued that independence and republican government were preferable to monarchy.
What is Common Sense?
Saratoga helped produce this development, which gave the Americans military, financial, and naval assistance.
What is the French Alliance?
Britain’s Southern Strategy depended heavily on the belief that large numbers of these colonists would support British forces.
Who are Southern Loyalists?
Members of this group served on both sides of the war, sometimes hoping military service would provide a path to freedom.
Who are Black Americans?
Put these three events in the correct order: Intolerable Acts, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party.
What is Tea Act → Boston Tea Party → Intolerable Acts?
This institution exposed a major contradiction between the Declaration’s claims about liberty and equality and American society in 1776.
What is slavery?
French naval forces helped trap Cornwallis here, contributing to the decisive British surrender of 1781.
What is Yorktown?
This French advantage at Yorktown prevented Cornwallis from being reinforced or escaping by sea.
What is French naval power / control of the Chesapeake?
The continued enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people contradicted these two major revolutionary ideals.
What are liberty and equality?