Road to Revolution

A personal feeling for or against something, often based more on emotions and feelings than facts or evidence

• Opinon

• Fact

• Bias

• Inference

someone who thought that the colonists should govern themselves; is in favor of independence from Britain

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Soldier

• American

someone who thought that Britain should still govern the colonies; against independence from Britain

• Patriot

• Loyalist

• Soldier

• Governor

a territory established and governed by people living in another land

• Country

• New World

• State

• Colony

the King's representative to the colonies; he speaks for the King in the colonies

• King

• Govenor

• General Assembly

• Loyalist

a group of elected colonists who made decisions and created laws for the colonies

• Govenor

• King

• General Assembly

• Loyalist

A war fought between France and Britain over land in North America

• Proclamation of 1763

• French and Indian War

• The Revolutionary War

• The Stamp Act

an imaginary line created at the end of the French and Indian War; colonists were supposed to live to the East of the line and Native Americans were to live to the West of the line

• The Line

• The Dotted Line

• Proclamation of 1763

• Parliament

money collected by the government from the people. Governments are then supposed to (and usually do) use the money to provide goods and services to the people

• tax

• lottery

• stamp act

• sugar act

The law-making body of government in England (similar to the US Congress)

• General Assembly

• Govenor

• Prime Minister

• Parliament