Vocabulary 1
An unwelcome intrusion into someone else's land
Invasion
Analyzing several sources to determine if they agree or disagree.
Without Representation
What is it called when someone refuses to buy goods?
Boycott
The world's best breakup letter
Declaration of Independence
Group of men that protested British authority
Sons of Liberty
A system where people agree to work for a set period of time without pay in exchange for passage to the New World, or to pay off a debt
Indentured Servitude
Act that required colonists to house and feed British soldiers
Quartering Act
French and Indian War OR 7 Years War
The supreme body of government in Great Britain
Parliament
A form of government in which people vote for their representatives in government
Democracy
A type of slavery in which the status of being enslaved is passed down from mother to child
Chattel Slavery
law created by British officials that prohibited colonists from settling in areas west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
One reason that Paul Revere's image of the Boston Massacre might NOT be a reliable source
-Member of Sons of Liberty
-Participated in the Boston Tea Party
-Can't confirm he was at the event
Historical thinking skill in which we analyze who created a document
Sourcing
Someone who is opposed to British authority
Someone who supports British authority
Loyalist
Which Act forced colonists to use British ships to transport goods and greatly restricted trade?
Navigation Act
Meeting of representatives from each colony that took place after the Battle of Lexington in 1775. Where the Declaration of Independence was approved
2nd Continental Congress
A series of actions designed to punish colonists for their protests. The acts closed Boston Harbor and limited colonial town meetings
Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act
This act put a tax on molasses
Sugar Act
An economic strategy where the "mother country" imposes economic controls on their colonies to increase their own financial power...often at the expense of the colonies well being
Mercantilism
What is the relationship between the Sugar/Stamp Act and the French and Indian War?
Britain imposed the taxes to help pay off the war debt
controversial land that led to the French and Indian War; British win war and claim this land; region where British fur traders went; rich soil for farming
Ohio River Valley