gave rights to Englishmen that American colonists wanted as well

science and reason can improve society and government

European nations, Native Americans and American colonists fought for North American land

Stopped colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains

Forced colonists to shelter & supply British soldiers. Colonists saw it as another way of taxing them.

Taxed imported goods such as sugar & molasses & punished smugglers

Required legal & commercial documents to carry a stamp showing a tax had been paid

Gave Parliament supreme authority to govern colonies

Taxed manufactured goods from England: glass, paper, silk, lead, painters colors, tea, etc.

Taxed tea & gave Britain's East India Company control of American tea trade

Punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party by closing the Boston Harbor, banning committees of correspondence, allowing British soldiers to be housed anywhere & allowing British officials to stand trial in Britain

Secret society that protested British policy

Allowed British officials to search colonial homes for smuggled goods

British soldiers shot and killed 5 Boston colonists

Sons of Liberty disguised as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea (worth over a million dollars in today's money) into the Boston Harbor as a protest of the Tea Act

Banned trade with Britain & called on each colony to begin training troops

Formed the Continental Army with George Washington in command, printed money to pay the troops & appointed a committee to write the Declaration of Independence

Made midnight ride with William Dawes and others to warn Patriots "the British were coming!"

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Wrote Common Sense to urge colonists to break away from Britain's control

Colonists last attempt at peace with Britain - rejected

protested the Stamp Act & declared only colonial assemblies had the right to tax colonists

"Taxation without representation is tyranny"

started the first battle of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord

Wanted to rebel from British control

Wanted to stay under British control

Groups of colonists who exchanged letters on colonial affairs

All men have certain natural rights. Governments are created to protect those rights and people can replace a government that fails to protect their rights.

Brings goods illegally into the country or colony.

The refusal to buy or import goods. A form of protest.

Laws that England put on the colonies to ensure that America would only trade with England. England profited tremendously from these laws.

1) Maintaining British rule over a large area far from England

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John Adams' opinion about the Boston Tea Party.

British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members

English citizens were already paying high taxes, they were paying 30 times the amount of taxes as colonist, and it seemed reasonable to ask the colonists to pay for the war debt, as it had removed France as a threat to the colonial settlements in North America.

The more the King & Parliament tried to impose their will, the more the colonists rebelled.