Why was the Declaration of Independence written?
Why did the colonists feel that the laws and taxes passed by the British were unfair?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and addressed it with King George III?
What was most important to the newly forming nation by the Second Continental Congress?
Who were allies for both sides (British and French)?
How was the British East India Company able to sell tea?
What came as a result of the Boston Tea Party?
Why was the Stamp Act abolished after one year?
What happened when the British Parliament closed the port of Boston and took away the rights of the Massachusetts Bay colonial assembly?
Who met to address concerns about the Coercive Acts imposed upon the colonist by Britain?
What did the Declaration of Independence consist of?
What did King George III refuse?
What was the American Revolution to the French and Indian War?
How was the war's debt paid?
Who benefited when a colonist purchased one of the stamps?
When did King George III rule Great Britain?
Why did the French and Indian War exist?
What did the Stamp Act require?
What did the grievance list?
When did the Second Continental Congress met?
Who decided that the debt from the French and Indian War must be paid by the American colonists?
Why were slaves and women not allowed to vote?
Who dressed like First Americans (Indians) and dumped tea into Boston Harbor?
Because the colonists were unhappy with British rules and wanted their independence.
Because they had no representation in British Parliament
King George III of England
The British Parliament
The First Continental Congress
A list of grievances against King George III.
The Sons of Liberty
The Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
Although the Declaration of Independence stated that all men equal, they were not considered equal.
They began to self-govern.
a catalyst
To accept the American petitions
Because the colonists protested the taxes on paper goods.
Ideas of freedom
Through the Tea Act which gave them exclusive rights to sell tea
a series of acts (laws) were passed
Thomas Jefferson
A direct tax on paper items/printed goods including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
On May 10, 1775 in Philadephia
before, during, and after the American Revolution
Because the British and French were fighting over land that both countries had claimed.
Different groups of Native Americans
The creation of the Continental Army and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
