Steps to the American Revolution

What is control?

• the power to rule or direct

• the freedom from control

• having someone in government speak for you

• a war against your own government

What is independence?

• the power to rule or direct

• the freedom from control

• having someone in government speak for you

• a war agains your own government

What is representation

• the power to rule or direct

• the freedom from control

• having someone in government speak for you

• a war against your own government

What is a revolution?

• the power to rule or direct

• the freedom from control

• having someone in government speak for you

• a war against you own government

____________ used its power to control the colonists.

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• Britain

• Colonists

True or False?

Colonists did not have any say in the laws that Britain passed in the colonies.

• True

• False

The colonists wanted _____________________ in Parliament.

• revolution

• control

• independence

• representation

Britain would not give the colonies representation in Parliament. In time, the colonists wanted ______________ from Britain.

• control

• independence

• representation

• revolution