Taxes
Slogan for the rebellion against taxes.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
Policies imposed by the British in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable acts?
Most of the American colonist felt this way about the American Revolution.
American General who was labeled a traitor when he assisted the British in a failed attempt to take the American fort at West Point.
Who is Gen. Benedict Arnold?
Loyalists were numerous in this part of the colonies.
What is the South?
Colonists boycott of British goods in protest of taxes imposed by the British.
What are the "Non-importation acts"?
This is the main reason colonists didn't want total independence from GB even after the battles of 1775-1776.
What is British Protection?
This is a philosophy of limited government with elected representatives serving at the will of the people. The government is based on consent of the governed.
What is republicanism?
Who are the Hessians?
Created by Samuel Adams and the Sons of liberty to get the colonies to unite the colonies against British policies.
What are committees of correspondence?
After the French & Indian War, English Parliament placed this tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses.
What is the Sugar act?
Colonists attacked Canada in Oct 1775 in hopes of making it this.
What is the 14th Colony?
They are a group of British political commentators who were very nervous about the power of Parliament and the arbitrary powers of the monarch. They supported the colonists in their fight for independence.
Who are the radical Whigs?
The loss of the British at Saratoga was aka this.
What is the Burgoyne's Blunder?
This is the first meeting of delegations from many of the colonies to discuss how to respond to a tax imposed by GB. It resulted in a declaration of rights as well as letters of complaints to the king and parliament which was largely ignored.
What is the Stamp act Congress of 1765?
This is the first tax that was repealed by the GB due to pressures from British merchants.
What is the Stamp Act?
Governor of Massachusetts whose actions angered the Boston mob leading directly to the Boston Tea party.
What is Thomas Hutchinson?
Privateers targeted this type of British ships.
What are merchant ships?
This legislative body created the Olive branch petition.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
This act was passed in 1766 just after the repeal of the Stamp Act stating that Parliament could legislate for the colonies in all cases.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Who is Crispus Attucks?
He was the first person to spread the idea of American independence in the colonies.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton.
What is Valley Forge?
This is a complete boycott of British goods proposed by the 1st continental congress.
What is the Association?