The Road to Revolution (Unit 03 Lessons 07 & 08) Flashcards
Which group of people were part of the Sons of Liberty?
Patriots
What did colonists dislike MOST about the Stamp Act?
No colonial representatives voted on the tax
Which act led to widespread boycott of British goods (products)?
Townshend Acts
What was the purpose of naming the incident in Boston the Boston Massacre?
It created bad feelings about the British
What did loyalists feel was needed after the Boston Massacre?
A stronger British Military force in the colonies.
What event is the reason for the Intolerable Acts?
Boston Tea Party
What did the First Continental Congress try to accomplish?
Tried to repair the relationship of Britain.
What lesson did the battles of Lexington & Concord teach the British?
The colonists were willing to fight for freedom.
Access to land, religious freedoms, economic opportunity and self government led the population of the American colonies to do what?
Increase to over a million.
Which group(s) of people had the right to vote in the colonies?
White men.
Who led the Virginia Militia when they tried to get the French to leave the Ohio Valley?
George Washington
Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763?
To keep the colonists off of indigenous land.
What did the Stamp Act require of all colonists?
A stamp on every piece of paper.
What was the only tax left in place when Parliament repealed the Townshend Act? Why?
Tea. The king wanted to leave one tax in place so he could add more later.
Was Patrick Henry a Loyalist, Patriot or neutral?
Patriot
Soldiers from these places made up the Continental Army.
All 13 colonies.
Right after the battles of Lexington & Concord, what as the general sentiment about going to war with Britain?
Colonists were reluctant to begin a war.
What was the outcome of the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The British won and the colonists retreated.
George Washington was chosen to lead the Continental Army because ______.
He had experience.
When colonists read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, it convinced them to believe ______.
The colonies should be independent.
What was the purpose of the Olive Branch petition?
To ask the king to work toward a peaceful solution.
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
To explain WHY the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
How do people get natural rights?
All people are born with natural rights.
Thomas Jefferson said that the power to rule comes from this group of people.
The people
What did King George III deny the colonists?
Their rights
What event happened on July 4, 1776?
The Declaration of Independence was signed.
The 13 colonies cooperated to bring their militia together and form this.
The Continental Army.
King George III and Parliament felt the Declaration of Independence was an act of _______.
Treason
