Vocabulary
Freedom to govern oneself
What is independence
Made the colonists pay a tax on newspapers and printed documents
What is The Stamp Act?
This is when the Sons of Liberty boarded East India Trading Company ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the harbor
What is The Boston Tea Party?
Leaders from the U.S. and Britain met in Paris to sign this document. The document stated that the U.S. was an independent country.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The First Amendment provides people with these things.
What are several personal rights, such as free speech and freedom of religion?
Soldiers hired to fight in a foreign country
What are mercenaries?
This taxed consumer purchases of glass, paint, tea
What is The Townshend Act?
Those who wanted to govern themselves were called
What is the Patriots
The 4 battles that took place in New Jersey, in consecutive order
What are the Battles of Trenton (1776), Princeton (1777), Monmouth (1778), and Springfield (1780) ?
This was invented by Samuel B. Morse
What is the telegraph?
The crime of trying to remove one's government from power by force
What is treason?
Taxed tea and said colonists could only buy tea from the East India Tea company
What is The Tea Act?
Those who wanted to support Great Britain
What is Loyalists
The battle that was fought for control of Trenton. The Continental Army won.
What is The Battle of Trenton?
These are turnpikes
What are private roads that charge money to use?
An official count of a population
What is a census?
The new set of laws that were so hard the colonists called them intolerable
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The group that led many protests
The first plan of government for the U.S. in 1781
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the purpose of a telegraph
What is to communicate over long distances?
A written change or addition to a set of laws, such as the US Constitution
What is an amendment?
Forced colonists to let British troops stay on their property
What is The Quartering Act?
The Second Continental Congress created this army with soldiers from all colonies. George Washington was the chief in command.
What is The Continental Army?
The three branches of government
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial bramches?
List each branch of government and what it is responsible for
What is the Legislative Branch (makes laws), the Executive Branch (run by the President), and the Judicial Branch (courts & judges)?