A | B |
a | Favorable Balance of Trade |
a war between the British and French and their Indian allies | French and Indian War |
a | Writs of Assisstance |
Proclamation by the British government that said no settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains | Proclamation Line of 1763 |
British troops will be housed in the homes of citizens Mass. | Quartering Act |
First direct tax levied on the colonists, placed a tax on newspapers, legal documents, playing cards and dice | Stamp Act |
a | Stamp Act Congress |
British Parliament declares that only they have the right to make laws for the colonies | Declaratory Act |
A Plan of unity written by Benjamin Franklin to fight the French and Indian War | Albany Plan of Union |
a group of people in Boston who dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw the British East India Tea overboard | Sons of Liberty |
a | Boston Massacre |
a | Committees of Correspondence |
Arrest for speaking out against the King in New York | John Peter Zenger |
a | "shot heard round the world": |
When the Sons of Liberty threw tea into Boston Harbor | Boston Tea Party |
a | Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts |
A document created to give the reasons why the Colonies should seperate from England, 3 parts: Preamble, List of Grievances and Conclusion | Declaration of Independence |
wrote "Common Sense", advocated Independence | Thomas Paine |
Phamplet written by Thomas Paine | "Common Sense" |
a policy of the British government to leave the American colonies alone until they become profitable | Salutary Neglect |
Acts passed by Parliament that forced all colonial ships going to Europe to first go through England | Navigation Acts |
first appeared in the New England | Public Schooling |
the process of taking Africans from Africa, to the West Indies then to the American Colonies | Slave Trade |
a | First Great Awakening |
right to vote | Suffrage |
Love of one's country | Nationalism |
private property rights | Land ownership |