The Road to Revolution (1763-1775)

In abroad sense, America was a _____ force from the day of its discovery by Europeans.  

The British government operated under the economic system of _______.

The Quebec Act did what?

By 1773, rebellion was _____________.

American militiamen were _________ but highly __________.

Half of Britain's massive debt came from what?

Instead of being happy about cheap tea from the East India Company, colonists were unhappy. 

Radical Whigs feared the threat to liberty posed by the power of the monarch compared to what?

In ________, defendants were assumed to be guilty and had to prove that they were innocent.

Colonists were asked to pay how much of Britain's war debt?

Colonial outcries against the Stamp Act took the form of the _____ in 1765. 

Who refused to disperse at Lexington?

Authorities in Britain forced Americans to deny the authority of Parliament to consider ___.

Only a select minority of American colonists attached themselves to the cause of independence.

 _____ forced the use of stamped paper or the use of stamps on trade goods and legal documents

Bostonians disguised as Indians caused what event in the Boston harbor?

The Quartering Act of 1765 required what? 

The most important response to the "Intolerable Acts" was what? 

In Boston, nervous troops fired into the crowd, killing/wounding 11. What was this called?

_____ nurtured new ideas about the nature of society, the citizen, and government.

What happened at Concord?

What was the only colony missing from the First Continental Congress?

Mercantilists believed that _____ was power and that ____ could be measured by gold or silver 

In the "Intolerable Acts," the new Quartering Act allowed for what?

Colonists raised the battle cry:

Through _____,every member of Parliament represented every person in the British empire.

American colonies_________________.

republicanism was opposed to __________ systems like aristocracy and monarchy

a system in which all citizens willingly give up selfish interests for the common good.

Instead of buying tea legally, colonists did what?

The British government also _________ from the colonial legislatures. 

Britain came out of the Seven Years' War with ______________.

_____ wasthe first law passed by Parliament that raised tax revenue in the colonies for Britain

___________ was the first person to die in the Boston Massacre.

How many colonists drank tea daily?

Afterthe Declaratory Act control of British government fell to the hands of _________.

After Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts, what happened to the tea tax?

What was the chief function of the committees of correspondence?

Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty were who?

British soldiers were sent to what towns to take colonist leaders and gunpowder?

The "Intolerable Acts" included what?

Parliament passed the ____, which claimed the right to“bind the colonies in all cases.”

Created at the First continental Congress, The Association called for what?

Nonimportation agreements were:

Mass demonstrations in major cities forced tea-bearing ships to return to England.

Who convinced the colonies to take a revolutionary course at the First Continental Congress?

What company did Parliament give a monopoly on tea in the colonies to?

The Townshend Acts placed import taxes on what? 

The series of acts passed by Parliament to punish Boston/Massachusetts were called _______.

The Townshend Acts were a ______________.

Britain passed the ___________ in 1650 to regulate the mercantilist system.