Road to American Revolution

Many say that the Boston Tea Party was nonviolent, and therefore an act of

Line forbids America from moving west across into Indian territory

Main reason colonists, like Patrick Henry, were upset with new taxes.

Britain not enforcing laws on the colonists for many years (caused colonial self-govt.)

King Said colonists can only buy British tea, hurt colonial business, causes Boston Tea Party

To protest tea act, Sons of Liberty dress up as Indians and dump King's tea in harbor

God-Given rights that NO ONE can take away (life Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness).Basis of D.O.I.

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Main tax protest organizers, such as: Sam Adams, Paul Revere, & John Hancock

Translation of D.O.I. Grievance: "He (the King) Imposed Taxes Without Our Consent"

Tar and feathering, and other abuse towards tax collectors and loyalists are examples of:

Act created by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for Tea Party-control of courts, ports, homes

Getting raw materials from the colonies and making colonists ONLY trade with England

Which was NOT a main grievance listed in the D.O.I.?

War that King taxed the colonists for without their consent

Translation of grievance: For Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretend offenses

Philosopher who invented the idea of Unalienable rights

Written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, it declared independence from Great Britain

Pain in Britain's side, wrote Common Sense which inspired colonists to want to divorce Britain

Reason the King George III of England ended Salutary Neglect

Taxed paper. Colonists react by boycotting British goods and threatening tax collectors

Colonists had to house and feed British troops, colonists resisted and ignored law

British troops open fire and kill 5 Bostonians=sparks more tension between Britain and America 

His famous lines, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death," helped inspire the American Revolution