Taxation without Repersentation
People
American Revolution
Primary Sources
CCOT
100
What was the primary cause for the taxes placed on the British colonies towards the end of 1860s?
What is the Seven Years' War?
100
Monarch of Great Britain during the Revolution.
What is King George III.
(Post Seven years war, he placed heavy taxes and trade restrictions on the colonies, contently increasing conflict between the two sides.
100
Direct cause of the American Revolutionary War?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
(After the Boston Tea Party, a series of acts were placed on the colonists. These acts were meant to punish the colonies for the destruction of their tea, but strengthened the resistance against Britain from the colonies.)
100
Purpose/effect of the primary source below?
What is declaring independence for the 13 colonies?Ratified on the 4th of july, this decleration was the majior cause of the American Revolutanary war, by stating that America Was independent from Britan.
100
Analyze the extent to which the ties between the colonies andGreat Britan changed or stayed the same after the Seven Years War.
Change: Due to the debt incurred by Great Britain, taxes and other restrictive acts were put into place. This new imperial lens, left the colonies to get close and closer to wanting full independence from Britan.
200
Tax placed on molasses and sugar imported to the colonies?
What is the Sugar Act?
(This increased the tensions between the colonies and the British government, and led to boycotts, protests, and riots)
200
Founding Father and somone who played a big role in getting the French alliance during the Revolutionary War.
What is Benjamin Franklin.
(Towards the end of the war, Franklin helped with the drafting of the Treaty of Paris, where the colonies would be seen as independent from Britain.
200
Two major battles that started the Revolutionary War.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
(These battles showed how the colonies where willing to go through a bloody war in order for their liberty.)
200
Purpose/effect of the primary source below?
What is unting the colonies to win the French and Indain War?
The Albny Plan of Union was introduced by Benjermin Franklen to have more of a centralized goverment in the British Colonies.
200
To what extent did Enlightenment ideas in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence represent a change or continuity from past colonial thoughts?
Change: The shift from slightly "out-dated" old colonial thoughts too ideas such as the social contract, natural rights, and more modern day thoughts about the government, proved a heavy shift from previous ideas.
300
A group that emerged from the Stamp Act in 1765.
What is the Sons of Liberty
(Emerged due to widespread protest and eventually had the sucsuss to get this act repealed in 1766)
300
Second President of the United States.
What is John Adams?
(Adams played a significant role in the Revolutionary War by strengthening the military, advocating for better supplies, and leading reform efforts, all of which led to his part in helping draft the Treaty of Paris.)
300
Battle marking the end of the physical aspect of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
(The colonial victory marked the end of the fighting and signified that the end of the war was near. This battle led the British to surrender, and the Treaty of Paris was then drafted.)
300
What is the main messege this image is trying to convey.
What is leadership of George Washington?
George Washington led to the colonies to a win in the revolutionary war.
He was later the first president of the United States.
300
Did the imposing of taxes by the British Monarch on the 13 colonies represent a change or continuity over time from their past actions?
Change: Post Seven Years' War, the colonies practiced Salutary Neglect, where they were essentially allowed to govern themselves with loose British intervention. In contrast, after the Seven Years' War, Britain began to tax the colonies directly with acts like the stamp act.
400
What caused the intolerable/coercive acts to be put in place?
What is the Boston Tea Party
(This is important because it shows how the protest methods in the mid to late 1860s were suppressed by British punishment like the intolerable/coercive acts)
400
First Secretary of the Treasury.
What is Alexander Hamilton?
(Helped establish the early economic system by creating the Bank of the U.S. and increasing the manufacturing industry.)
400
Treaty ending the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
(Besides ending the war, this treaty recognised the colonies as independent, and paved the pathway for the new country to enter into affairs that were on a worldly aspect.)
400
Ideas that John Locke supported, effected which of the main documents during Period 3?
What is Decleration of Indpendencee?
Ideas such as the social contract, natural rights, and more modern day thoughts about the government, where stongly imposed into the Decleration of Indpendence.
400
Evaluate to the extent the Battle of Yorktown marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
This battle is considered one of the most significant turning points in this war. The colonial victory marked the end of the fighting and signified that the war was almost over. This battle led the British to surrender, and the Treaty of Paris was then drafted.
500
What caused colonists to be angrier about the taxes when they were first imposed?
The PREVIOUS idea of salutary neglect, which meant that laws weren't enforced strictly on the colonists.
This led them to be MORE angry when taxes were imposed after the Seven Years' War
500
One of the main writers of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
(Filled with Enlightenment thoughts, Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, from June 11 - June 28, 1776)
500
The Battle of the Revolutionary War with the most deaths on both sides.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
(This battle on June 17, 1775, was caused by British troops trying to seize control of areas around Boston. The British suffered around double the deaths of the Americans, but the British still won this battle due to a weak colonial army.)
500
This doucuent was written by which enlightment thinker?
Who is Thomas Paine?
Advocated for liberty, equality, and indvidual rights, and was one of the most influential thinkers when drafting the U.S. Constitution.
500
How did the colonial response to the Tea Act show a change or continuity of how the colonies responded to the growing British intervention?
Although this led to what was one of the most impactful responses to these taxes, the Boston Tea Party showed a continuity in colonial resistance to the encroachment of the British monarch. This is significant because it showed how over time these building tensions ultimately exploded into a full-blown war.