Unit 3: American Revolution

parliament

political party where laws are made - “Taxation without Representation”

patriots

colonist who opposed the british rule during Revolution

loyalists

someone who was loyal to the british

natural rights

life, liberty ,and property (John Locke suggested)

“Taxation without Representation”

a phrase used to represent taxes

sons of liberty

a group of colonists who organized their beliefs

boycott

to refuse something

self-evident

obvious

unalienable

cannot be taken away

militia

group of colonists who are organized for military services and are only called upon in emergencies

minutemen

citizen volunteers who were trained to fight at a moments notice during the American Revolution

colonial protest methods (5)

tarring and feathering, boycotts, smuggling, sons of liberty, hanging effigies

Thomas Paine’s ideas in Common Sense

• NA is a huge piece of land unlike a tiny island in Europe

• disagreements could never be fixed between them

• britain may be beaten by the Continental Army

Declaration of Independence main ideas

natural rights, governments who interfere these natural right and overthrown and they would need to protect/secure these rights

Proclamation Line

colonists could not cross the Appalachian Mountains

sugar act

taxes sugar and molasses (lowered taxes and profited the british)

stamp act

taxes all paper items and documents

declaratory act

the british government made all the laws for the colonists (taxed anything)

townshend act

taxed everything

boston massacre

fight between the colonists and the british

tea act

taxed tea

boston tea party

colonists dumped all the tea into the boston harbor

intolerable acts

closed the british harbor until all tea is repaid

quartering act

the british soldiers were forced into the colonists homes

first continental congress

first meeting held in Philadelphia

second continental congress

second meeting held in Philadelphia

when was the declaration of independence signed

july 4th 1776