Ch. 3- Road to Revolution

Another name for the Intolerable Acts.

• Coercive Acts

• Quartering Act

• Proclamations of 1763

• Sugar Act

Goods and slaves were traded between the colonies, Britain, and Africa.

• Middle passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Triangle of Hatred

Where people talked about and decided on issues of local interest.

• town meeting

• court trial

• sermons

• club meetings

Occurred when British troops fired on American colonists who were throwing snowballs at them; sparked the Am. Rev.

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Harbor

• Boston Settlement

• Boston Massacre

Reduced the powers of the English monarch; listed rights of British citizens

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Constitution

• American Bill of Rights

Spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society in the 1700s

• Great Awakening

• Enlightenment

• Great Migration

• Immigration

Protest against Tea Tax; group of colonists disguised as Native Americans boarded British ships and threw tea in the Boston Harbor

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Settlement

• Boston Tea Party

• Bacon's Rebellion

What was the objective of the English Bill of Rights?

• To remove the English monarch from the throne

• To reduce the power of the English monarch

• To end the taxation of colonies without their consent

• To require colonists to trade only with England

Massachusetts was punished for the Boston Tea Party in all of the following ways, except which?

• Bostonians had to search and recover the discarded tea.

• The governor had to approve when the legislature could meet.

• Its charter was cancelled

• Boston Harbor was closed

Why did the British government begin taxing American colonists?

• To keep the colonists under control

• To give the money to the Catholic Church

• To pay war debt from the French and Indian War

• To put more responsibility on the colonists