Road to Revolution #1
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
KING GEORGE III.
Name of the highest level of the British government
Parliament
Area of land that the French & Indian War was fought over:
Ohio River Valley
This group was established to undermine British rule and advance the rights of colonists.
Sons of Liberty
This is a condition in which the residents exercise self-government and authority over their territory.
Independence
This colony chose not to participate in the First Continental Congress
Georgia
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
Someone that wanted to be free from British rule.
Patriot
This was signed to end the French & Indian War:
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Secret meeting of the Sons of Liberty in Philadelphia to discuss how to respond to British taxes and especially the Intolerable Acts
1st Continental Congress
This confrontation on March 5, 1770, began as a protest of colonists, but ended with British soldiers shooting and killing five people.
BOSTON MASSACRE
This was a civilian colonist that volunteered for military service and could be ready in a minute's notice.
Minuteman
This act put a tax on chests of tea.
Tea Act
This country was approached by colonists to help financially support the revolution.
France
The purpose was to work together to warn neighboring colonies about incidents occurring in New England with the British
Committees of Correspondence
France lost claims to the Ohio River Valley to this country
Great Britain
The British were taxing the colonies to pay debts from which war?
French & Indian War
This was someone in the colonies who supported staying loyal to England.
Loyalist
This man built Fort Necessity during the French & Indian War. He was also Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
George Washington
Book written by Thomas Paine that convinced colonists that a separation from England was necessary.
Common Sense
This act in (1764) placed duties on foreign sugar in an effort to stop smuggling
SUGAR ACT
This act in (1765) provided food and shelter to soldiers
Quartering Act
1.Closed the port of Boston
2.Gov’t Act –decreased power of Mass. legislature
3.New Quartering Act
4.Administration of Justice Act – accused royal officials were to be tried in a court in England
Intolerable/Coersive Acts
The primary writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
This act caused colonists to begin smuggling more goods into the colonies to avoid paying taxes on imported goods.
Townshend Acts
Settlers from both nations had designs on settling the rich lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, often called the Ohio River Valley.
Great Britain and France
This banned all settlement west of the Appalachians.
Proclamation of 1763
This company held a monopoly on British tea imports.
British East India Company
The idea that Parliament was taxing colonists without their consent is called:
TAXATION WITH
OUT REPRESENTATION
The Intolerable Acts punished Massachusetts for the _______________.
Boston Tea Party