Taxes, Taxes, Taxes
This act placed a tax on sugar and molasses.
Sugar Act
Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
Colonists had to house and feed British soldiers under this act.
Quartering Act
This pamphlet encouraged colonists to declare independence from Britain.
Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence was adopted on this date
July 4, 1776
A tax on all paper products in the colonies.
Stamp Act
British soldiers fired on colonists, later used as propaganda.
Boston Massacre
Colonists disguised themselves as these people during the Tea Party.
Mohawk Indians
The author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The Declaration says all men are created equal with these rights.
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
This act taxed imports like glass, paint, paper, and coffee.
Townshend Act
A war that left Britain in debt and led to colonial taxes.
French and Indian War
A refusal to buy goods as a form of protest.
boycott
Colonists believed they were denied this by not having a voice in Parliament.
representation
The main author of the Declaration.
Thomas Jefferson
A tax on imported tea sparked a major protest.
Tea Act
Passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
Colonists organized these groups of civilian soldiers to fight the British.
militias
Paine argued that Britain was not equipped with the knowledge or resources to rule over ___.
American colonies
Name one thing that was not addressed in the D.O.I (taken out during revisions)
Slavery
Colonists said this slogan to oppose British taxes without voting rights.
“No Taxation without Representation”
King George III banned settlement west of the Appalachians.
Proclamation of 1763?
This 1774 meeting brought together 12 colonies to organize resistance against Britain.
First Continental Congress
Paine also attacked this system of government as flawed.
monarchy
The Declaration announced that the colonies were free from this country.
Great Britain