Taxes and Acts
This economic theory believed colonies existed to benefit their mother country, restricting them to only trade with the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This 1770 event was a violent clash between British soldiers and colonists in Boston, resulting in the deaths of five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These basic rights, such as life, liberty, and property, were believed to belong to all people and inspired American ideals.
What are natural rights?
This 1776 document declared the American colonies' independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This term describes how Britain took advantage of the colonies by restricting their rights and imposing heavy taxes.
What is exploitation?
This 1765 British law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials by placing a stamp on them.
What is the Stamp Act?
During this 1773 protest, colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
According to this political theory, people agree to form a government to protect their rights.
What is the social contract?
This key American document is divided into parts, including the Preamble, Grievances, and Declaration of War.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This brutal trade system involved transporting enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
A British tax in 1764 that imposed duties on a sweet product imported into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
This 1774 meeting of colonial representatives addressed grievances against Britain and laid the groundwork for independence.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This famous phrase was a rallying cry against British taxation without colonial representation in Parliament.
What is “No Taxation Without Representation”?
This man was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This form of protest, where colonists refused to buy British goods, became a powerful tool against British policies.
What are boycotts?
Glass, tea, paper, and paint were all taxed under this 1767 series of British laws, leading to boycotts.
What were the Townshend Acts?
At the Second Continental Congress, this man was chosen to lead the newly formed Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This influential pamphlet by Thomas Paine argued for American independence using clear and persuasive language.
What is Common Sense?
In the Declaration, these complaints against Britain justified the colonies’ decision to break away.
What are grievances?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas and included the exchange of goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
What is the Triangular Trade?
These harsh laws in 1774 punished the colonies after the Boston Tea Party, leading colonists to call them by this negative name.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This petition was a last attempt by the colonies in 1775 to seek peace with Britain, which was ultimately rejected.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This form of media was used during colonial protests to influence public opinion against British policies.
What is propaganda?
Colonists who supported independence were known as Patriots, while those loyal to Britain were called this.
What are Loyalists?
These groups of armed citizens were formed to protect colonial communities in place of a formal army.
What are militias?