A | B |
Most of the American colonies were: | Royal Colonies |
Many of the liberties listed in the English Bill of Rights eventually became a part of this document | U.S. Constitution |
Relations between Great Britain and the Thirteen colonies began to worsen after this: | The French and Indian War |
British policies in America were opposed by this group | The Sons of Liberty |
Allowed the ships from a British company to sell tea cheaper than the colonies | Tea Act |
trade laws that were designed to raise English profits and end smuggling | Navigation Acts |
Tax on legal papers, licenses, newspapers, etc | Stamp Act |
Tax on lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea | Townshend Acts |
Members of this group wrote letters to each other about abuses of the British government and what to do about it | Committees of Correspondence |
When the colonists refused to buy goods from the British | Boycott |
Lawmaking body in Great Britain | Parliament |
When the king and the Parliament in England refused to change their policies, the colonists began thinking about this | Independence |
He published a pamphlet in which he pleads for separation from England | Thomas Paine |
This group appointed a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence | Second Continental Congress |
Most of the Declaration of Independence was written bey | Thomas Jefferson |
First Battle of the Revolutionary War | Lexington and Concord |
Main reasons why the colonists were upset with England | Taxes |
General for the Colonists | George Washington |
Colonists protested the taxation without_____in the English Parliament | Representation |
Month in which the Declaration of Independence was enacted | July |