Colonial Life & Government
This British policy of _____ allowed the colonies to largely govern themselves.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This 1765 act taxed paper goods like legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This English-born writer authored Common Sense, persuading colonists to support independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This woman, carried water and even fought at the Battle of Monmouth.
Who is Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays)?
This 1777 battle convinced France to formally ally with the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
These elected bodies often controlled governors’ salaries, limiting royal power in the colonies.
What are colonial assemblies?
This slogan captured colonial opposition to Parliament’s right to tax them.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
The ideas of this Enlightenment thinker, especially “natural rights,” influenced Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
This 1775 proclamation offered freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army.
What is Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation?
This European nation provided crucial military and financial aid to the United States after Saratoga.
Who is France?
Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754, this plan sought to unite the colonies but was rejected.
What is The Albany Plan of Union?
Colonists responded to the Townshend Acts by organizing these boycotts of British goods.
What are nonimportation agreements/boycotts?
The Revolution’s emphasis on liberty and equality clashed with the persistence of this institution in America.
What is Slavery
During the war, women often managed these two responsibilities while men were away fighting.
What are running farms and businesses (or managing households and family responsibilities)?
In 1781, this battle effectively ended the Revolutionary War when Cornwallis surrendered.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Fear of losing local autonomy made this task especially difficult for the colonies before independence.
What is uniting the colonies under one government?
Passed in 1774, these acts punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party and pushed colonists closer to independence.
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration originally attacked this institution, but the clause was removed to appease southern delegates.
What is Jefferson's Deleted Clause on Slavery?
Despite their wartime contributions, women gained little expansion of these rights in the new republic.
What are political and legal rights?
At this winter encampment, Washington’s leadership and Baron von Steuben’s training helped keep the Continental Army together.
What is Valley Forge?
This first U.S. government framework reflected colonists’ fears of centralized authority by creating a very weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1786–87 farmers’ uprising in Massachusetts exposed the inability of the Articles of Confederation to handle internal unrest.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
These two documents both persuaded colonists, but in different ways: one used plain language, the other lofty ideals.
What is Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence?
Both African Americans and women invoked this revolutionary phrase to challenge inequality after independence.
What is "All Men are Created Equal"?
These three European powers supported the U.S., turning the Revolution into a global conflict.
Who are Spain, the Netherlands, and France?