Vocabulary
What is a proclamation?
An important announcement made by a person of authority.
What is a tax?
Bonus points: What's the difference between an import and an export?
A tax is money collected by the government to run the country.
Imports are goods coming into a country. Exports are goods being sent to other countries.
What does, "no taxation without representation" mean?
"No taxation without representation" was a phrase coined by the Sons of Liberty to express their discontent of being taxed while not being represented in parliament.
What was the name for colonists that supported independence from Britain?
Patriot
What were colonists who believed that the colonies should remain a part of Great Britain called?
Loyalists
What is boycotting?
The refusal to buy goods as a form of protest.
Why did Britain tax the colonists?
Britain was in major debt from fighting the French and Indian War.
What did Benjamin Franklin mean when he said "Join or die"?
He meant if the colonists didn't unite the colonies wouldn't survive on their own.
Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
Bonus: What did they do to protest?
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were secret radical groups that opposed Britain's taxations.
Bonus: The Sons of Liberty boycotted, made pamphlets, and used violence to protest. The Daughters of Liberty boycotted British goods, and did things like create their own cloth.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the Townshend Acts by the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty stormed British ships full of tea, and threw millions of dollars of tea into Boston Harbor.
Patriots saw the King as a tyrant. What does tyrant mean?
Bonus: Why did they see him as such?
A tyrant is a cruel and oppressive leader.
Bonus: He enforced unfair laws.
Which act taxed things like paper, tea, lead, glass, and paint?
The Townshend Acts
What well-known document was adopted by the Continental Congress stated that the thirteen colonies no longer belonged to the British?
The Declaration of Independence
What was the Boston Massacre?
The Boston Massacre was a violent confrontation between British soldiers and a group of colonists in Boston, Massachusetts in 1770.
What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?
Great Britain and France were fighting over North American territory and resources.
What does coercive mean?
To convince with force
Why did Britain impose the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
It was in reaction to the Boston Tea Party.
A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege. Custom-house officers may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit their entry. Their menial servants may enter, may break locks, bars, and everything in their way; and whether they break through malice or revenge, no man, no court, may inquire. -James Otis
What does this quote mean?
What did the Continental Congress do?
The Continental Congress met to serve as a representative government for the colonists.
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
Separated the colonists from Native Americans to prevent further fighting.
Also, prevented colonists from settling west.
What is a militia?
A militia is an unofficial volunteer army.
Order the following in chronological order:
-Townshend Acts
-Stamp Act
-Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
-Sugar Act
1. Sugar Act (1764)
2. Stamp Act (1765)
3. Townshend Acts (1767)
4. Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1774)
We, the citizens of Mecklenburg County, do hereby resolve the political bands which have connected us to the Mother Country & hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British crown & abjure all political connection, contract or association with that nation who have wantonly trampled on our rights & liberties & inhumanely shed the innocent blood of American patriots at Lexington.
What does this quote mean?
They are declaring their independence from Britain.
Name at least 2 acts that were successfully repealed.
Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Townshend Acts
What was the "shot heard around the world"?
Bonus: Why was is called that?
This was the first shot during the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Bonus: It was an important and inspirational event for a colony to fight against a European Empire.