Causes
Taxes established on materials like sugar, and molasses. Intended to help end smuggling of the substances.
What is the Sugar Act? (1764)
The idea that we are given basic freedoms for simply living.
What is Natural Rights?
The independent government system fought for in the Revolution that is still used today.
What is democracy?
The Colonies first attempt to establish a government. Or in this case, a unity of 13 states.
What is the Articles of Confederation? (1777)
Colonists who didn't revolt against the British but instead remained loyal to them.
Who are loyalists?
A tax imposed by the British Parliament that required printed materials be embossed with a stamp.
What is the Stamp Act? (1765)
The colonists ditched their God-centered way of living for this one instead.
What is a Man-centered way of life?
The oppressive system that colonists hypocritically used even after the Revolution.
What is Slavery?
The colonies' second attempt at establishing a form of government.
What is the US Constitution? (1789)
A smaller enemy of colonists in the Revolution, fighting to claim back the property the colonists had stolen.
Who are Native Americans?
A series of laws imposed by the British Government that imposed taxes on materials like paint, lead, glass, and tea.
The rate increase that was due in part with the increase of newspaper and book publications.
What is increased literacy rates?
The day we had established independence and still celebrate every year.
When is July 4th?
A series of political and philosophical essays written to convince the reader to ratify the US Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers? (1788)
One of the first colonies to rebel and separate from the British Government.
What is the Massachusets Bay Colony?
A political protest led by colonists protesting the unfair taxation from the British Government in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party? (1773)
What colonists looked for answers in now that they had left their God-centered lifestyle.
What is science and reason?
Another country that American Colonists teamed with to take independence over the British Government.
A war fought in the 1800s due to our continued use of slavery.
What is the Civil War?
An act that colonists performed on British-government workers out of protest.
What is Tarring and Feathering?
A term for the unfair taxation of the colonies, despite clear one-sided terms.
What is "taxation without representation"?
The new idea that the colonists built their soon-to-be government around.
What is "government does not control people, people control government"?
Another group of people who would remain oppressed (though not as harshly.) Up until 1920.
Who are women?
The final treaty that was signed to end the Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The year of the first recorded colonial protest of British taxation.
When is 1765?