Catchphrases
"The British are coming! The British are coming!"
Why was this said? Who said this?
1) The British troops were marching to seize weapons from the colonists and the minutemen/militia needed to be ready to fight. 2) Paul Revere.
Delegate and Representative?
What do these mean?
1) Someone that is sent by a group of people to speak on their behalf.
Sugar Act
What did it do? Why was it passed?
1) Taxed sugar. 2) To raise money for the British Empire and restrict smuggling.
Natural Rights
What is it?
1) A right that is given to you by God and cannot be taken away.
"No taxation without representation!"
What does this mean? What group said this?
1) People shouldn't be taxed if they don't have a voice in the government. 2) The Patriots.
Loyalist
What does this mean
1) A colonist that is loyal to Britain and sees themselves as a British subject.
Stamp Act
What did this do? Why was it passed?
1) Created a tax on paper in the form of a required stamp on all paper. 2) To raise money for the British Empire.
Tarring and Feathering
What was it? Who did it?
1) Covering someone in tar, often burning, and pouring feathers on them. 2) The Patriots often did it to British tax collectors, soldiers, and Loyalists.
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
What does this mean? Who said this? What was the purpose of this catchphrase?
1) I would rather die than not have freedom. 2) Patrick Henry. 3) To get more support for independence.
Patriot
What does this mean?
1) A colonist who supports being independent from Great Britain.
Boston Massacre
What was it? What happened because of it?
1) British soldiers killed 5 unarmed colonists after the colonists agitated them. 2) Made many colonists mad at Great Britain and turned a lot of colonists into Patriots.
Sons of Liberty
Who were they?
1) A group of patriots that staged protests against the British Empire.
"Don't fire unless fired upon..."
What does it mean? What group said it? Why was it said?
1) Don't shoot unless they shoot. 2) The Patriots. 3) The colonists didn't want to start fight unless they had to.
Declaration of Independence
Why was this important?
1) The colonists officially said they were independent of the British Empire and established the idea about how governments can only rule with the support of the people.
What did they do? Why were they passed?
1) Closed the Boston ports, forced colonists to let British soldiers stay in their homes, removed colonial governments, and let governors move colonial trials to Great Britain. 2) To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Minutemen
What were they?
1) Regular people made into soldiers that were ready to fight at a moments notice.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men were created equal...with certain unalienable [not to be taken away] rights..."
What does this mean? Where is it from? What group used this?
1) Everyone was created equal and has natural rights as a human being. 2) The Declaration of Independence. 3) The Patriots.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Why was this important?
1) It inspired the colonists to fight the British Empire by using language that everyone could understand.
Boston Tea Party
Who did it? Why did it happen? What was it? What acts were passed because of it?
1) Sons of Liberty/Patriots. 2) The colonists were protesting the tax on tea. 3) The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians threw 342 chests of tea from a ship into the ocean. 4) The Intolerable Acts.
Committees of Correspondence
What was it? What was its purpose?
1) A collection of colonial committees that were made up of patriots. 2) To create communication lines between the colonies.