The Road to the American Revolution
England helped the Americans win what war to start the American Revolution?
The French and Indian War
A system in which a mother country attempts to gain wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports. Increases the prosperity and power of one nation through unfair policies.
What is mercantilism?
The closure of the Boston Harbor to promote a British monopoly and punish the colonists
Boston Port Act
American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won.
Patriots
A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution
The Sons of Liberty
Canada was won by who in the French and Indian War?
England
Britain required the colonist to house and feed the British troops.
Quartering Act 1765
Organization founded by Samuel Adams consisting of a system of communication and letters between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies
The act of illegally importing or exporting goods
What is smuggling?
Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
Taxes on Molasses & sugar imported to the Colonies; deeply affected merchants.
Sugar Act of 1764
A skirmish between the British troop and Colonists that led to 5 deaths
The Boston Massacre
This reflects the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives or voting in Britain's Parliament
The first battles of the American Revolution proved that the British underestimated the colonists abilities.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
1735 trial that promoted the idea of freedom of the press.
What is the Zenger Trial?
Taxed legal and commercial documents, and newspapers.
Stamp Act of 1765
A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty.
The Boston Tea Party
The Massachusetts charter was voided and town hall meetings were outlawed.
Mass. Government Act
This negotiation in 1763 ended the French Indian War (aka the Seven Years War) and France lost their North American territories, while the British Empire drastically expanded
On July 8, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Intolerable Acts, ended the taxation without representation policies).
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This is the creator of the "Bloody Massacre" who used it for propaganda against the British.
Paul Revere
A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
Townshend Act
The first time the colonies came together as one government.
The Continental Congress
A Native uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area.
Pontiac's Rebellion?
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group (Tea by the British in the colonies)
What is a monopoly?