Indigenous Communities
This word describes the people who originally lived in a place.
Indigenous
This is a new settlement controlled by another country.
Colony
This action involves refusing to buy goods as a form of protest.
Boycott
This phrase describes being taxed by a government without having elected representatives in its lawmaking body.
Taxation Without Representation
This part-time colonial soldier was expected to be ready to fight quickly.
Militia Member
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy was made up of several Native nations working together. What did they use to make decisions?
Council
These were the three main regions of the thirteen colonies.
Southern, Middle, and New England Colonies
Colonists used petitions, protests, and boycotts to respond to these British policies.
Taxes
Mandatory financial charge collected by governments from colonists
Tax
This group met in 1774 to coordinate colonial resistance and defend colonial rights.
Continental Congress
This is a group of nations that joins together for a shared purpose.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire were part of this region.
New England
This 1773 protest involved colonists destroying tea to oppose British taxation and control.
Boston Tea Party
This principle means that people should have someone speak or make decisions for them in government.
Representation
These colonial groups made many local laws and decisions.
Colonial Assemblies
Name one Indigenous community we learned in class...
Cahokia
This region was known for farming and growing crops to sell.
South Colonies
This 1770 event involved British soldiers firing into a crowd of colonists in Boston, increasing colonial anger toward Britain.
Britain needed money after fighting this expensive conflict.
These battles marked the beginning of armed conflict between colonial forces and Britain.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
What 3 countries came to colonize and settle in the Americas that we learned about?
England, France, Spain
This idea allowed people to practice different religions without unfair punishment.
Religious Toleration
This colonial protest organization met in 1765 to challenge taxation without representation.
Stamp Act Congress
Apart from taxation, what are other reasons for the American Revolution?
Put these events in order: Lexington and Concord, the Boston Tea Party, and the First Continental Congress.
Boston Tea Party → First Continental Congress → Lexington and Concord