General Questions
On March 5th, 1770 9 British soldiers were confronted by a large crowd that began throwing rocks, snowballs, sticks, and other objects at them. One soldier fired into the crowd and the others followed without an order immediately after. Several people were killed instantly and others were injured.
The Boston Massacre
Britain’s unofficial policy to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies in the late 17th century & early 18th century
Salutary Neglect
Required all trade between England and the Colonies to be on English or Colonial ships.
Navigation Act
This man created the Social Contract Theory, and ideas are a main contribution to the Declaration of Independence.
John Locke
A written Complaint
Grievance
Colonists were frustrated by the taxes on tea and the control the East India Tea Company had on all tea business. The Sons of Liberty heard of several East India company ships bringing tea into the Boston Harbor and planned their act of civil disobedience.
The Boston Tea Party.
The first written constitution in the colonies
Mayflower Compact
required the American colonies to provide food, drink, quarters (lodging), fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
Quartering Act
This man got his military experience during the French and Indian War, he would later become the nation's first president.
George Washington
stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a protest.
Boycott
The first form of representative government in the colonies
Virginia House of Burgesses
These acts were passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
The Intolerable Acts
One of the men that were killed in the Boston Massacre, he was also a former slave.
Crispus Attucks
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propoganda
was a law set in place in 1773 by the British Parliament, giving all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India Tea Company, which had struck a deal with Parliament.
The Tea Act
The first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock
Assembly
The three unalienable rights
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
This act said that people in the American colonies had to use a stamp on newspapers and legal documents. The colonists had to buy the stamp from the British government.
The Stamp Act
Main author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
a system in which the citizens of a country rule themselves & control their own affairs
Self-Government