Proclamation of 1763
This law stopped colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This term means Britain loosely enforced colonial laws.
What is salutary neglect?
his movement emphasized reason, science, and natural rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
The colonies fought this country for independence.
What is Great Britain?
The national government could not collect this, causing financial problems.
What are taxes?
How did the Proclamation of 1763 limit colonial economic opportunities?
It blocked access to western land for farming, trade, and settlement.
Because Britain wasn’t strict, colonies learned to do this on their own.
What is self-govern?
This philosopher inspired the ideas of life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This man led the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Each state had this many votes in Congress.
What is one?
Why did many colonists feel the proclamation was unfair after fighting in the war?
They believed they had earned the right to the land they helped win.
These local groups became powerful during this period.
What are colonial assemblies/legislatures?
Government gets power from the ______ of the governed.
What is consent?
This country helped the colonies with money, troops, and ships.
What is France?
This rebellion showed the government was too weak to keep order.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Ignoring the proclamation showed that colonists were beginning to question what?
British authority/control over the colonies.
Britain ended this policy after the French and Indian War to gain....
What is money/taxes/revenue?
This document, written mainly by Thomas Jefferson in 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the Massachusetts colony following the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
What was the most successful part of the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Explain how the Proclamation of 1763 helped increase tension between Britain and the colonies.
It restricted freedom/expansion, angered colonists, and increased resistance to British rule.
Ending salutary neglect made colonists feel Britain was taking away their ______.
What is freedom (or rights/independence)?
What are the 4 parts of the Declaration of Independence?
Preamble, Declaration of Natural Rights, List of Grievances, and Resolution of Independence by the United States
The war ended with this treaty in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Because the Articles were weak, leaders met in 1787 to write this new document.
What is the Constitution?