Causes of The American Revolution Test

Place these events in order from the first one to happen to the last.
Declaratory Act, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Proclamation of 1763, Tea Act, Townshend Acts, Coercive Acts Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, First Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord.

Correct Order
1. Proclamation of 1763
2. Sugar Act
3. Stamp Act
4. Declaratory Act
5. Townshend Acts
6. Boston Massacre
7. Tea Act
8. Boston Tea Party
9. Coercive Acts
10. First Continental Congress
11. Lexington and Concord

An American colonist who did not support independence and wanted the 13 colonies to continue as part of the British Government.

Loyalist

An American Colonist who wanted to separate from England and was willing to fight to make the 13 colonies an independent country.

Patriot

An American Colonist who did not take a side between American's declaring independence and staying loyal to England.

Neutralist

Thomas Paine: "A government of our own is our Natural Right.

Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death"

Benjamin Franklin: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"



These were spoken by colonist from what viewpoint during the American Revolution?

Patriot Quotes

Fee Charged by a government on a product, income, or activity.

Tax

Magna Carta, and English Bill of rights did what?

Limited the power of the Monarchy

First Direct Tax on the American Colonist by the British Government?

Stamp Act

These series of Acts passed by the British Government in 1774, most directly lead to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

Coercive Acts (Also known as the "Intolerable Acts).

A period of time where people developed new ideas about human existence, including peoples' basic rights and the level of control they should have over their government and their futures.

Enlightenment

The belief that human beings were born with fundamental basic rights which include the right to life, liberty, property, and the freedom to find happiness.

Natural Rights

A state of existence where there is no government at all, where people live with no rules in complete freedom.

State of Nature

Citizens agree to obey a set of rules, and the government agrees to protect citizens' rights (Life, Liberty, and Property).

Social Contract

If a government fails to protect the citizens, then the citizens no longer AGREE to be governed and they would have the right to revolt.

Consent of the Governed

The idea that a country's leaders should be chosen by the citizens in a general election.

Republicanism

Colonists were forbidden from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains because the British Government could not afford to protect settlers beyond the Appalachians from Native American attacks.

Proclamation of 1763

(April 18-19, 1775)
First battles of the American Revolution

Lexington and Concord

Sept. 5, 1774
55 delegates representing 12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia, PA to discuss how to resist the Intolerable Acts.
This congress urged all of the colonies to not obey the Intolerable Acts, ARM themselves against possible British aggression, and to boycott all British goods.
Creation of Minutemen: Colonial militias started practicing shooting and drilling combat maneuvers. The town of Concord, MA created a special unit of men that were expected to be ready to fight in a minutes notice.

First Continental Congress

Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party with four acts intended to punish Massachusetts and reassert British authority:

BostonPortAct

Massachusetts Government Act

QuarteringAct

Quebec Act

To enforce these Acts the British Government sent in 2,000 more troops into Boston and appointed General Thomas Gage Governor of Massachusetts.

Coercive Acts/Intolerable Acts

(December 16, 1773)
Protest in Boston by the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act. Orchestrated by Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
The British brought 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to be sold around Boston. (A million dollars worth)
150 members of the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans (to hide their identities) boarded the British ship and dump all the tea into the Boston Harbor.

Boston Tea Party

British East India Company was given a monopoly on supplying TEA to the American colonists. This caused the price of tea for Americans to go down, but it put colonial merchants out of business.
Americans like John Hancock smuggled in cheaper Dutch tea.
This Act countered the smuggling by making;
the British Tea cheaper than smuggled tea,
and the act allowed the British to bypass colonial merchants and sell directly to stores. This cut out the colonial middleman and cost many colonists a lot of money.

Tea Act

March 5, 1770: A gang of Colonial Protesters encountered armed british soldiers outside of the customs house.

A fight broke out resulting in the British troops firing into the crowd of colonists. 5 colonists were killed in the brief fighting.

Boston Massacre

New direct taxes on American Colonists: Taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea.
Also cracked down on smuggling of non-British imported goods.

Writs of Assistance - search warrants that let British officials enter and search any location in the colonies to search for smuggled goods.

Townshend Acts

a law passed by the British Government which reaffirmed its dominion or supreme control over the colonies.

Declaratory Act

This was the British Government's first DIRECT TAX on the American Colonists.
This Act was a tax Printed Material: Such as newspapers, pamphlets, posters, wills, mortgages, deeds, licenses, diplomas, and playing cards.

Stamp Act

Placed a tariff (a tax) on Sugar and Molasses entering the colonies.
Smugglers were presumed guilty until proven innocent (Violation of due process)
Smuggled goods were also captured without a search warrant or due process.

Sugar Act

What were 4 ways the colonist protested the British Government's violation of their rights?

Boycotts
Riots and/or Protests
Homespun Goods
Smuggling of Foreign goods

This organization was created by Sam Adams and John Hancock to protest the British Government's Violation of colonial rights.

Sons of Liberty

When do people in a country have the right to overthrow their government and start a new one?

when the government fails to protect individual rights

What economic benefit did European countries receive from their colonies?

markets and goods to support trade

What cash crop is credited with helping Jamestown (England's first permanent colony in North America) succeed and encouraged more English settlement in North America?

Tobacco

Virginia's House of Burgesses was the American Colonist's first attempt at what?

Practicing Representative Democracy

Quest for a trade route to East Asia and the Indies.
Search For Gold
Desire to spread religious beliefs

These were all reason for...

European Exploration of the Americas

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the Triangle trade route developed connecting what three parts of the world?

The Americas (North and South), Europe, and West Africa

What Enlightenment Philospher discussed:

The purpose of government is to protect peoples property (life, liberty, estates). If government fails to protect, the government should be overthrown and replaced with one that does protect property.

John Locke

What Enlightenment Philospher discussed:

Governments should be guided by the will of the people and the will of the majority is more important than the will of the individual.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What Enlightenment Philospher discussed:

Governments should have 3 branches of government and checks & balances in order to protect people's freedom from corrupt/bad leaders.

Baron de Montesquieu