French & Indian War
Britain gathers a large amount of this burden as a result of the war
What is Debt?
A tax on all imported goods
What is the Sugar Act?
An event where five people died that would be used as anti-British propaganda for the Revolution
What is the Boston Massacre?
He said all men are guaranteed "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This army was well equipped, well trained, and had one of the world's greatest Navy.
Who are the British?
A new law banning British colonists from expanding West of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
A tax on all printed materials
What is the Stamp Act?
The Sons of Liberty lead this activity in response to the Tea Act
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He said all men are guaranteed "life, liberty, and property"
Who is John Locke?
These people were fighting a defensive war, knew the terrain, and had committed political leaders
Who are the colonists?
A colonial general who gained fame during the French & Indian War
Who is George Washington
This law forced colonists to take British soldiers into their homes when they lacked a barracks
What is the Quartering Act?
This is the event where the colonists created a temporary government, a military, and signed the Declaration of Independence
What is the Second Continental Congress?
He influenced the Declaration of Independence and convinced colonists to become Patriots in his pamphlet Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
Last large-scale battle of the war, ends with General Cornwallis ordering a retreat after being surrounded by the French and Americans
What is Yorktown?
This country won the French and Indian War?
Who are the British
Tax placed on an assortment of imported goods; such as tea, paper, lead, and glass
What is the Townshend Act?
Benjamin Franklin's Join or Die political cartoon called for this event to occur in opposition to unjust British Actions
What is the First Continental Congress?
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection
What is a Social Contract?
This battle was a turning point in the war that convinced France to aid the colonists
What is Saratoga?
This policy of loosely enforcing British laws on the colonies ends after the French & Indian War
What is Salutary Neglect?
In response to a Tea Party, this place in Massachusetts was shut down by the King
What is Boston Harbor?
People who sided with King George and Britain on the Revolution
What are Tories or Loyalists?
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to,” do this.
What is alter or abolish it, and create a new government?
George Washington famously crossed this River before the Battle of Trenton
What is the Delaware River?