Policies + Taxes
What act placed taxes on newspapers, legal documents, licenses, and other printed materials?
Stamp Act
Which group contributed to the Revolution by boycotting British goods, producing homespun goods, raising money, and supporting soldiers?
Women
What 1770 event occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, killing five colonists?
Boston Massacre
What act declared that Parliament had the authority to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"?
Declaratory Act
What idea did Britain use to argue that colonists were represented in Parliament even though they did not elect representatives there?
Virtual Representation
What was the first item that the British put a tax on?
Sugar
What were colonists who supported independence from Britain called?
Patriots
What 1773 protest involved colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor?
Boston Tea Party
You are a middle-class farmer living in rural Massachusetts. Your family has lived in the colonies for generations, you work your own land, and you are part of a local colonial community. What are you?
Patriot
What three specific natural rights did Locke identify?
Life, Liberty + Property
What policy describes Britain's period of loosely enforcing its laws in the colonies before the French and Indian War?
Salutary Neglect
What were colonists who remained loyal to Britain called?
Loyalists
What method of protest involved refusing to purchase British products?
Boycott
Which writer published a pamphlet arguing that the colonies should separate from Britain?
Thomas Paine
The name of the King of Great Britain at the time
King George III
What policy prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
What group organized protests, boycotts, and other resistance against British policies?
Sons of Liberty
What phrase summarized the colonial objection to being taxed by a Parliament in which they had no elected representatives?
"No Taxation Without Representation!"
What was one major result of the French and Indian War for Britain?
Increased War Debt
What laws punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party by closing Boston Harbor and restricting Massachusetts self-government?
Intolerable Acts
What war left Britain with large debts and encouraged Parliament to raise money from the colonies?
Seven Years' War (French + Indian)
Which philosopher argued that people are born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property?
John Locke
You are a wealthy merchant living in Boston who regularly trades with Britain and has strong business and family connections to British officials. What are you?
Loyalist
Explain at least one example regarding how the painting "Bloody Massacre" could be considered propaganda?
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What is one way in which the American Revolution could be considered Revolutionary?
Make a connection + explain
Salutary Neglect + Sugar Act
Colonists were unhappy about the tax on sugar because for so long, during the period of Salutary Neglect, Britain did not impede on the colonists business whatsoever.
Please give the two main reasons that the British passed the Stamp Act.
Raise Money, Suppress Colonial Voice/Resistance.
How could the American Revolution be considered not Revolutionary?
Lower Class / Certain Groups of People (Women, Black Americans, Native Americans, Poor People, etc.) did not have significant change.
Make a connection + explain
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
The British got help from Native American Tribes during the French and Indian War thus resulting in the implementation of the Proclamation of 1763 which prohibited colonists from settling into territory occupied (mostly) by Native Americans west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the idea of Republicanism and how did it differ from the way that rulers and their subjects interacted?
Republicanism means government is run by elected representatives. Unlike a monarchy, citizens have a role in choosing their government.