Early On
This is the governing body in England that made laws and protected citizens' rights.
What is Parliament
This is the relative distance (miles) between the colonies and England.
What is 3,000 miles
This is the document created by our Founding Fathers that stated the colonists had become an independent nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
This event was a reaction to Great Britain forcing the colonists to buy tea from British merchants, not the colonists.
What is the Boston Tea Party
An act that forced colonists to buy TEA only from British merchants and eventually led to the Boston TEA Party.
What is the Tea Act
This is the type of ruler that had controlled Europe throughout most of history, especially in the 1200's.
What are kings/monarchs
Great Britain viewed its colonies as a source of this.
What is profit
This man was the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
An event that started out as a small riot between colonists and British soldiers but ended with several colonists being shot and killed in the streets of Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre (Bloody Massacre)
This was an act passed in the colonies that forced colonists to allow British soldiers to live in their homes.
Primarily, people from this country in Europe established the 13 colonies.
What is England
In order to pay for their debt from several wars, Great Britain decided to do this.
What is taxing the colonies
These were the 3 Founding Fathers who worked together to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Who are T. Jefferson, J. Adams, and B. Franklin
This was the name of a colonial organization (or gang) that fought against unfair treatment towards the colonies by Great Britain.
What are the Sons of Liberty
This was an act that stated that the king's and Parliament's laws were superior to the laws passed in the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act
Great Britain had hundreds of these during the 1700s across the globe.
What are colonies.
Empires like the British Empire would take these from its colonies for low prices and turn them into manufactured goods, which would then be sold back to the colonies for high prices.
What are raw materials
The vast majority of the Declaration of Independence was directed at this person.
Who is King George III
This meeting of colonists was organized in response to the Stamp Act and was the first example of unity between the 13 colonies.
What is the Stamp Act Congress
This act forced colonists to pay taxes on paper, glass, lead and other goods sold in the colonies.
What is the Townshend Act (Townshend Revenue Act)
What the colonies formed on their own to solve everyday problems due to England being so far away and also having other problems to deal with.
What are colonial governments
The British expected the 13 colonies to help pay the cost of a war that they fought and won against this rival European country.
What is France
The vast majority of the Declaration of Independence is made up of these towards the governing bodies/ruler of Great Britain
What are grievances (complaints).
A specific action taken by the colonists in which British goods were purposely not bought in the colonies.
What is a boycott
These were a series of acts that were focused on punishing the rebellious activity in Boston, Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts