American Revolution
• Economic policy used by Britain to regulate
industry and trade in the American colonies.
• Economic theory that a country acquire and
keep as much gold and silver as possible by
having colonies where they could harvest raw
materials and sell finished products.
•An economic and political policy in which the
government regulates the industries, trade and
commerce with the national aim of obtaining a
favorable balance of trade.
Proclamation of 1763
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A British law prohibiting
colonial settlement of lands
west of the Appalachian
Mountains
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Closed the region west of the
Appalachian Mountains to
colonists.
• Tax on paper products and
“taxation without representation”
• Enacted to raise money in order to
pay off British debt from war
Laws which required colonists to
provide housing for British troops
A general search warrant that
allowed an official to search any
building or ship at any time
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Colonists protested the Tea Act by
throwing crates of tea into the harbor
Leads to the closing of the ports
(Intolerable Acts)
A series of laws designed to punish
Boston and discourage rebelliousness
elsewhere by:
1. Closing Boston harbor
2. Weakening the power of the elected
legislature of Massachusetts
3. Restricted town meetings
• Clash between colonists and British
soldiers
• The killing of 5 Bostonians by British
soldiers who claimed they were
protecting themselves from a hostile
mob
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Colonists expressed grievances to
King George III
A meeting of delegates (excluding
Georgia) which decided to oppose
the Coercive Acts by mounting a
colony wide boycott on British
goods
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Organized the colonial army
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
A second meeting of the Continental
Congress whose members signed the
Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
Served as the U.S. national government
from 1776 to 1781 when it was replaced by
the Congress of the Articles of
Confederation
• Pamphlet which argued that the colonists
should separate themselves from Great
Britain
• Called for an end to British rule
• A document signed by members of the
Second Continental Congress which
declared that the thirteen British colonies
were no longer colonies but rather thirteen
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sovereign and independent states
Expressed the reasons for independence:
Inalienable rights/natural rights
List of grievances
Consent of the governed
• Natural rights that cannot be
taken away by the government
• Natural rights of life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness
A system of government whose
head of state is not a monarch and
the people elect representatives to
act as their agents in making and
enforcing laws
A condition in which the authority of a
government should depend upon the
consent of the people, as expressed by
votes in elections
Colonial reaction to Parliament’s
changes in mercantile policies
following the French and Indian War
Complaint against something thought
to be wrong
English policy of relaxing the
enforcement of regulations over
the colonies that led to the
development of American political
and economic freedom
Economic policy used by Britain
to regulate industry and trade in
the American colonies
(enforcement of mercantilism)
A soldier who is hired to serve in a
foreign army
Civilians who volunteer and
organize a reserve military force
• Started due to British and French
conflicting interests in North America
• End salutary neglect
King of England during the end of the
French and Indian War & the
American Revolution
• Colonial inventor,
printer, writer, statesman
• Contributed to the
Declaration of
Independence and
Constitution
Commander-in-Chief of the
American Continental Army
Author of the Declaration of
Independence
• Author of political pamphlets
during the 1770s and 1780s
• Wrote Common Sense in 1776
• Turning point in the American
Revolution
• Afterwards France, Spain, and
Holland declare war on Britain
• Continental Army’s victory
convinces the French to support
the colonists
Beginning of Military action
•Final major battle of the
American Revolution
•British surrender signifies the
end of major military action
• Officially ended the American
Revolution
• Recognized the independence of
the United States
Economic theory that a country
acquire and keep as much gold and
silver as possible by having colonies
where they could harvest raw
materials and sell finished products.