Colony Roll Call
This region of the colonies was dominated by plantation agriculture and cash crops like tobacco.
What are the southern colonies?
This 1765 act placed a direct tax on printed materials in the colonies.
What is The Stamp Act?
This protest group used intimidation, boycotts and public action to resist British rule.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This Enlightenment principle held that people possess inherent rights simply by being human.
What are natural rights?
This meeting in 1774 united colonies in response to the Coercive Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This region became known for shipping, trade, and port cities such as Boston.
What is New England?
These duties on imports like glass, paint, paper and tea were introduced in 1767.
What is The Townshend Duties?
This female-led movement supported resistance through homespun production and non-importation.
Who are The Daughters of Liberty?
This idea argued that legitimate government depends on the consent of the governed.
What is representative government?
This document, signed on 4 July 1776, formally announced separation from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This colony was the home of George Washington.
What is Virginia?
The core colonial objection to these taxes was summed up in this famous phrase.
What is 'No Taxation Without Representation'?
This 1773 protest saw colonists dump tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This philosopher most directly influenced Jefferson’s language about life, liberty and rights.
Who is John Locke?
Fighting in these two cities started before the official outbreak of war between the colonies and Britain.
What is Lexington and Concorde?
This British economic system aimed to use the colonies for the wealth and power of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Britain generated massive debts from this war, which was part of the larger 'Seven Years War'.
What is the French and Indian War?
This man, a casualty of the Boston Massacre of 1770, is often considered the first casualty of the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The first line of this text is "some writers have so confounded society with government, as to produce little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins"
What is 'Common Sense' by Thomas Paine.
This later congress took the crucial step of moving toward war leadership and eventual independence.
What is The Second Continental Congress?
This geographic and political feature helped make the colonies regionally diverse and harder for Britain to govern uniformly.
What is the distance between and variation of the thirteen colonies.
This act gave the East India Company special advantages and helped trigger the Boston Tea Party.
What is The Tea Act?
These colonial bodies increasingly acted as alternative centres of authority to royal government.
What are the Colonial Assemblies?
If students compare Patriot and Loyalist views, they are analysing this.
What are historical perspectives?
Who are Lafayette and Rochambeau?