Road to Revolution Flashcards
Navigation Act
Colonists only trade w GB
No Dutch trade
Molasses Act
Taxed sugar products
Great awakening
Ability to worship without church - why not self govern?
Enlightment
Individualism
Foundation for government
Salutory Neglect
GB ignoring colonies
Colonists ruled selves
Albany Plan of Union
Ben Franklin to reunify colonies
7 attended
Seven Years War Effect
France lost all territory
GB had Florida and was broke!
Pontiac
Forced British away
Sugar Act
Taxed non-British sugar products
Quartering Act
Provide for soldiers
Stamp Act
Taxed all printed products
Sons of Liberty
Colonial opposition
Boycotted GB
Townshend Act
More taxed imports
Suspended NY assembly
Circular Letter
Reunify colonies
Boycotted tea
Boston Tea Party
Dumped 342 chests of tea
Intolerable Acts
Closed all Boston Ports until tea was repaid
Expanded Quartering Act
1st Congress
All but Georgia met in Philadelphia
Unified boycott
Militia
2nd Congress
Independent government
GW head of army
Ticonderoga
Fort captured, first real volley
Bunker Hill
British victory, but showed colonies could stand up
Declared in rebellion
Olive Branch
Petition for peace
King didn’t even read it
Declaration of Independence
Jefferson mainly
Rousseau and Locke’s ideas
Self governance
July 4, 1776
