Vocab
AFIW
ADI
EOC questions
Bonus
100

to force colonists to house soldiers in their own homes

quartering

100

This costly war forced Britain to implement a policy of heavy taxes on the colonies

French and Indian War

100

True of False: The Continental Congress always wanted to declare independence.

FALSE

100

Which complaint against King George III is stated in the Declaration of Independence? 

A) He had quartered his troops among the colonists

B) He had forced the colonists to accept the practice of slavery

C) He had required the colonists to trade with French merchants

D) He had failed to defend the colonists in the French and Indian War.


A

100

These 3 guys made up the Declaration Committee

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin

200

to tax without the consent of the colonists

taxation without representation

200

This act was the first one the British enforced and it led to the colonists boycotting the goods and attacking the colonists

Stamp Act

200

This was a list of complaints that were sent to the king in an effort to ask the King to fix their issues

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

200

Which grievances contributed to the American colonists' desire for independence? 

A) British policies made frontier lands too expensive

B) the King had denied the colonists their freedom of religion

C) the British government was too generous to the Indian tribes

D) the British government had taxed the colonists without their consent


D

200

Tell me one of the standards from this chapter

1.3: Describe how English policies and responses to colonial concerns led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence

1.4: Analyze the ideas (natural rights, role of government) and complaints set forth in the Declaration of Independence

300

this your rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

natural rights

300

this was a tax on paper, tea, lead, and paint

Townshend Act

300
This was an effort of the Continental Congress to seek peace and reconcile

Olive Branch Petition

300

the right to personal liberty is an example of...

an unalienable right

300

This act stopped all trade with the colonies in response to receiving the Olive Branch petition

Prohibitory Act

400

a complaint

grievance

400

This was the colonial response to the Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

400

This was the essential argument of Common Sense; Thomas Paine suggested that ... because ...

colonies should be independent because the king was far away

400

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures"

This is located in this part of the D.O.I.

list of colonial grievances

400

These are the 5 things the D.O.I. accomplished

  • Declared independence

  • Announced a theory of government based on social contract

  • Listed the grievances with the King

  • Justified the conduct of the colonists

  • Announced the USA as an official nation

500

English author who wrote Common Sense

Thomas Paine

500

Summarize 4 of the laws from the Intolerable Acts

Boston Harbor closed

MA charter cancelled

Royal officials had court in England

Quartering Act

500

This document publicized the concept of "natural rights" later found in the D.O.I.

John Locke's explanation of Social Contract

500

This is the main purpose of the D.O.I.

to protect the unalienable rights of the citizens

500

Fill in the blanks:

We hold these truths to be ______, that all men are created ____. That they are endowed by their creator with certain _______ rights, that among these are ______, _______, and the _________.

self-evident

equal

unalienable

life, liberty, pursuit of happiness