Road to Revolution Review

A series of imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.

What event caused massive debt to the British treasury; thus needing to increase taxes.

Patriot who famously informed colonists, on horse-back, that the British army was approaching.

An organization/ secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists, fight taxation.

Meeting of delegates from 12/13 colonies in Philadelphia, write plea letter to King George III.

At the Second Continental Congress, the framers picked Thomas Jefferson to write what document?

What act required colonists to house British soldiers, even in times of peace?

The first battles of the Revolutionary War were in the towns of...

The idea that power within a democratic society comes from the people:

What event started as a snowball fight and was used by the patriots as propaganda?

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness are examples:

In a final attempt to avoid a full-on war, the delegates in Congress send the king...

Although they lost, what battle is considered to be a 'moral victory' for the colonists.

What law made by Parliament forbid farmers from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?

An act of voluntary not using, buying, or dealing with an organization or country in protest.

Imposed a direct tax, requiring that many printed materials be produced on stamped paper.

Thomas Paine's persuasive pamphlet:

An event in which the Sons of Liberty, in protest, ruined millions of £s of British products.

Series of punitive laws intended to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.