A "Master Set" for the Road to Revolution. It contains everything, including vocab words, people, and the Acts. Enjoy!
42305048 | Pontiac's Rebellion | War in 1763 between British and the Indians | |
42305049 | Pontiac's Rebellion | War caused by violation of peace treaties, settlers intruding onto claimed land, and varying treatment from the French. | |
42305050 | Neolin | the Delaware Prophet who's message was to not follow the English way and to stick to ancient practices. | |
42305051 | Pontiac | Chief of the Ottowa tribe | |
42305052 | Proclamation Act of 1763 | Law passed in response to Pontiac's Rebellion | |
42305053 | Proclamation Act of 1763 | Law passes to protect British settlement and prevent conflict between the British and the Native Americans. | |
42305054 | King George III | The new King of England as of 1760. | |
42305055 | George Grenville | Prime Minister who replaced Pitt and enforced past laws and made new laws. | |
42305056 | Sugar Act of 1764 | Law that imposed a duty on foreign sugar, molasses, etc. that was going to the colonies. | |
42305057 | non-importation agreements | Agreements made by colonial merchants that promised they would not buy British goods. | |
42305058 | Stamp Act of 1765 | Law that places an import tax on all printed matter, which had to be printed on stamped paper. | |
42305059 | Sons of Liberty | committee of people that used pamphlets, petitions, and public meetings for support. | |
42305060 | Samuel Adams | Leader of the Sons of Liberty who was a tax collector and went to Harvard college. | |
42305061 | Paul Revere | Person who was famous for the Midnight Ride. | |
42305062 | John Hancock | President of the First Continental Congress who was rich and a major propagandist. | |
42305063 | James Otis | Massachusetts delegate to the Stamp Act Congress who makes "no taxation without representation" famous | |
42305064 | Stamp Act Congress | Delegates of 9 colonies that unified resistance from Britain. | |
42305065 | Daughters of Liberty | People who protested the Acts and wove their own cloth by holding "spinning parties". | |
42305066 | Quartering Act of 1765 | Act that was also called the Mutiny Act. | |
42305067 | Quartering Act of 1765 | Act that required colonists to house and feed British troops living in colonies and additional troops. | |
42305068 | Declaratory Act of 1766 | Act that repealed the Stamp Act, but stated that Great Britain can rule the colonies anyway she sees fit. | |
42305069 | Declaratory Act of 1766 | Act in which Pitt returned, overjoying the colonists. | |
42305070 | Townshend Acts of 1767 | Act that placed a duty on tea, lead, glass, dye, etc.. | |
42305071 | Writs of assistance | Search warrants that were used to enforce the Townshend Acts, but were a violation of privacy.. | |
42305072 | Charles Townshend | Britain's finance minister. | |
42305073 | Lord North | Became the Prime Minister in 1770. | |
42305074 | Lord North | He repealed the Townshend Acts, expired the Quartering Act, and made a law that stated Britain will pay the salaries of governors and judges instead of the colonists. | |
42305075 | Committee of Correspondence | A group of people who spread the word of Great Britain's new laws that were being enforced. | |
42305076 | Boston Massacre | A riot on March 5, 1770 between the colonists and the British. | |
42305077 | Captain Preston | Leader of the British troops in Boston during the Boston Massacre. | |
42305078 | General Thomas Gage | Sent British troops to silence protests in Boston. | |
42305079 | Crispus Attucks | Thought to be the first African American killed in the Boston Massacre, and, ultimately, the American Revolution. | |
42305080 | Tea Act of 1773 | Act passed to save the British East India Company from going bankrupt. | |
42305081 | Boston Tea Party | The result of the Massachusetts governor refusing the colonists' demands to send back 3 shiploads of tea to Britain. | |
42305082 | Boston Tea Party | The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor- some liked it, and some didn't. | |
42305083 | Patriots | Colonists who supported independence. | |
42305084 | Loyalists | Colonists who urged restraint from independence. | |
42305085 | Coercive Acts of 1774 | Acts passes as a result of the Boston Tea Party, sending the message to the colonists that they had complete control over them. | |
42305086 | Coercive Acts of 1774 | Acts that served as a punishment until the tea was repaid and all damages were accounted for. | |
42305087 | Intolerable Acts | Name the colonists gave to the Coercive Acts. | |
42305088 | Port Bill | Law that closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea. | |
42305089 | Government Act | Revoked Massachusetts charter and forbade colonists from holding town meetings. | |
42305090 | Administration of Justice Act | Allowed royal official who were charged for crimes to be tried in other colonies or in Britain. | |
42305091 | New Quartering Act | Ordered colonists to house and feed British soldiers. (part of the Coercive Acts) | |
42305092 | Quebec Act of 1774 | Act that overrode land claims of the VA, CT, and MA colonies, expanding Quebec south. | |
42305093 | Administration of Justice Act | Act that annoyed John Adams. | |
42305094 | Quebec Act of 1774 | Act that granted religious freedom to French Roman Catholics, upsetting many Protestant colonists. | |
42305095 | First Continental Congress | Convention of 56 delegates from all colonies except GA that had no lawmaking authority. | |
42305096 | First Continental Congress | Convention held to decide on how to respond to the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act. | |
42305097 | Declaration of Resolves | Decision made by the First Continental Congress that stated that the colonies were loyal to Britain, they were going to continue to boycott their goods they could legislate themselves, and that they were going to meet again if their demands were not met. | |
42305098 | Battle of Lexington and Concord | Battle in which the "first shots of the American Revolution" were fired. | |
42305099 | Midnight Ride | Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Sam Prescott rode to warn minutemen of approaching British soldiers. | |
42305100 | John Parker | Colonial Captain that stood, along with 70 minutemen, and waited on Lexington Green. | |
42305101 | John Pitcairn | Captain of the British in the Battle of Lexington and Concord who said "Put down your arms, you damn rebels". | |
42305102 | Second Continental Congress | Convention in which the agenda was to raise an army for Congress, appoint a commander for the army, and make the Olive Branch Petition | |
42305103 | Samuel Adams | Wanted immediate declaration of independence from Britain in the Second Continental Congress | |
42305104 | John Dickinson | Urged restraint from independence in the Second Continental Congress, and wrote the Olive Branch Petition. | |
42305105 | Continental Army | Army for Congress that was "for the defense of American liberty". | |
42305106 | George Washington | Commander in Chief of the Continental Army established by the Second Continental Congress. | |
42305107 | Patrick Henry | VA delegate to First and Second Continental Congress- "Give me liberty, of give me death". | |
42305108 | Thomas Paine | British immigrant who thought that the "king" in a free country should be the people. | |
42305109 | Common Sense | Document that had a unifying effect, was one of the 1st bestsellers, stated that the real problem was King George III, and that a small island shouldn't rule a nation across the ocean. | |
42305110 | Declaration of Independence | Document that finally granted independence and freedom to the colonies from Great Britain. | |
42305111 | Olive Branch Petition | Final plea to King George III asking for a peaceful end to the conflict. | |
42305112 | Richard Henry Lee | Thought that the colonists should be free, and proposed an idea for a committee that would make a document declaring independence. | |
42305113 | Thomas Jefferson | Writer of the Declaration of Independence. | |
42305114 | John Locke | Philosopher from the Enlightenment period who said that you can only govern with the consent of the people. |