Vocab
This is incoming $$$$ from taxes and other sources.
What is Revenue?
Explain the difference between a loyalist and a patriot.
A loyalist is loyal to Britain. A patriot is ready to separate from Britain.
This act actually lowered the tax on molasses, to prevent colonists from smuggling.
What is the Stamp Act.
This man was a true inspiration to Thomas Jefferson when writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke.
This Proclamation kept colonists from settling West of the Appalachians, which helped protect Native American Lands.
What is the Proclamation of 1763.
This is a court document that allows officers to search somewhere for smuggled goods
What is Writs of Assistance?
The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre.
1770-The Boston Massacre was when Br redcoats killed 5 rowdy Patriots after being antagonized by them.
1773-The Boston Tea Party occurs when the sons of liberty dumped a bunch of tea into the harbor as an at of protest against Britain.
This was a tax on imported goods; glass, tea, and paper.
What is the Townsend Acts.
This was an organization that spread political ideas and information throughout the colonies.
What is the committee of Correspondence.
Who is King George III.
This is a mocking figure created that represents a unpopular individual- it makes fun of that person.
What is an effigy?
Repeal and veto
Both stop a law. Repeal means to cancel it after it was already in place, veto means that it was stopped before it could go into effect.
This was a tax on all printed materials.
The Stamp Act.
This event happened in Concord in 1775.
What is the first battle of the conflict and the British took heavy loses.
That phrase that represented the entire cause of the American Revolution.
This is what you do when you refuse to buy something to prove a point.
What is boycott?
Between a petition and a preamble.
This was a tax on tea, which removed some taxes from tea, lowering the cost, but still did not remove all tax on it.
What is the Tea Act.
This battle showed the British that the Colonist had a shot at wining the war even though the Americans lost this battle.
What is the battle of Bunker hill.
John Locke is famous for saying people have the right to "Life, Liberty and Property." How did Thomas Jefferson fit this into the Declaration of Independence?
Jefferson said "Life, Liberty and Persuit of happiness."
These are messages intentionally spread to help or harm a cause.
What is propaganda?
Difference between a minuteman and a redcoat.
A minute man is a patriot ready to fight at a minutes notice, and a redcoat is a British soldier.
This is another word for the Coercive Acts.
What is the Intolerable Acts.
This was a petition that stated the colonists wanted peace and to avoid war, but the King of England rejected it.
What is the Olive Branch Petition.
The Second Continental Congress Drafted the Declaration of Independence because of this.
Because the King had rejected the Olive Branch Petition and fighting had begun.