Events Leading To The American Revolution

What did "No taxation without representation" mean?

What was the biggest issue between the colonist and Great Britain?

Wanted to stay under British control

"official announcement"

Wrote Common Sense to urge colonists to break away from Britain's control

What was Britain's response to the Boston Tea Party?

Allowed British officials to search colonial homes for smuggled goods

Gave Parliament supreme authority to govern colonies

Required legal & commercial documents to carry a stamp showing a tax had been paid

What was the purpose for the Declaration of Independence?

Colonists last attempt at peace with Britain - rejected

Also known as the Seven Years War. A conflict between Britain and France that took place in North America from 1754-1763

Prohibited American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Wanted to rebel from British control

Started the first battle of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord

A group of citizen soldiers.

King of Great Britain during the American Revolution

Appreciated the law because it made it so they could keep their land without any conflict.

Taxed imported goods such as sugar & molasses & punished smugglers

Secret society that protested British policy

What is civil disobedience?

Forced colonists to shelter & supply British soldiers. Colonists saw it as another way of taxing them.

Punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party by closing the Boston Harbor, banning committees of correspondence

Taxed tea & gave Britain's East India Company control of American tea trade

Was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

A proposal made by Benjamin Franklin to unite the 13 colonies into one united government.

Made midnight ride with William Dawes and others to warn Patriots "the British were coming!"

Protective of their fur trade, build forts to protect it.

A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.

British Government

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonists from moving west of this area

All of the taxes and protests eventually led to

Why did Britain begin taxing the colonies?

Taxed manufactured goods from England: glass, paper, silk, lead, painters colors, tea, etc.

Competition for the same objective.

Why were the colonists angry about the Stamp Act?

Wanted more land to settle and wanted to make their own profits with the fur trade.

Sided with the French during war.

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

British soldiers shot and killed 5 Boston colonists

First Colonial government

Who wore red coats and believed the best way to fight was to line up and wait for a command to fire.

A formal agreement.

France had to agree to give up all of its territories in North America...

A hill that became the first real battle of the Revolution

Sons of Liberty disguised as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

The refusal to buy or import goods. A form of protest.