The Colonies
The original 13 colonies (at least 5 of them).
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Forced all trade from the colonies to go to Britain.
Navigation Acts
Started with an angry mob of colonists armed with snowballs, but ended with British soldiers killing/injuring 11.
Boston Massacre
Limited powers of the King in 1215.
Magna Carta
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Inalienable Rights
The people who lived in the colonies (at least 4 groups).
British, Enslaved People, Indigenous People, Dutch, Puritans, Pilgrims, Quakers, Prisoners
Caused the British to start enforcing the Navigation Acts and add more tax laws to get money.
French and Indian War
Colonial leaders wrote to each other about the problems with the British.
Committees of Correspondence
Founding fathers borrowed the idea of states sticking together in one united country from this.
Iroquois Confederacy
People have the right to overthrow a government when it is this.
Tyrannical
The New England Colonies
Forced colonial people to house British soldiers. There were 2 of them.
Quartering Acts
Colonial people dressed up as Indigenous People and threw tea into Boston harbor.
Boston Tea Party
People consent to give up absolute right to do whatever they want to get security from a government.
Used the Declaration of Independence's format to fight for women's rights.
Declaration of Sentiments
Breadbasket crops, small town governments, good farmland (but not the best of the colonies), some religious influence.
Middle Colonies
Raised taxes on a variety of goods (3 possible responses).
Tea Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts
Lexington and Concord
Pilgrims agreed to work together for the safety of all when they arrived on land.
Mayflower Compact
Used the Declaration's ideas to fight for the rights of black people (5 possible answers).
Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Gettysburg Address, Juneteenth Order, MLK Speech
Rich soil, long growing season, large farm, cash crops, large enslaved population, wealthy leaders.
Southern Colonies
Punished Boston with 4 new laws, including closing the port, taking control of the government, and forcing more troops into homes.
Intolerable Acts
Second Continental Congress
Protected free elections, therefore giving more power to the people.
English Bill of Rights
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