Details Title: american heritage Description: chapters 5 Total Flash Cards: 22 Created: 07/07/2009 21:19:33		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Political Studies Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term two consequences of the revolution? Definition freedom from british, brought colonies closer Term significance of 1763 Definition before then the colonies were bound to the british empire because interdependency Term the british saw the colonies as what? Definition money, another possession they could rule Term taxation without representation Definition rally by colonists because of the taxation of british empire Term tea act Definition designed to make the british east india company a monopoly on tea Term stamp act Definition taxation on all documents, the most infamous tax Term when the british closed western settlement, what did this violate? Definition the "free land" statement Term sons of liberty Definition small group of bostonians took matter in their own hands, they were reponsible for the boston tea party Term intolerable acts Definition series of laws that were ridiculous Term committees of correspondence Definition group that coordinated written communication with other colonies Term patrick henry Definition "give me liberty or give me death". pushed for a bill of rights Term continental congress Definition body of representatives who met to respond to the intolerable acts, and draft the declaration of independence Term who was teh king during the declaration of independence? Definition george III Term what was a flaw of the continental congress? Definition it was a government made by the governed Term nation Definition a group of people united on some acceptable basis Term thomas jefferson Definition author of declaration of independence Term connection between "declaration of independence" and "second treatise" Definition they were pretty stating the same things Term thomas payne and "common sense" Definition a book written on why the colonies should declare war with britian Term what was a con of the british? Definition they had crappy officers who didn't know how to make decisions Term militas were used as reinforcements but also for what? Definition instruments of political education Term the first characteristic men must have Definition gentleman Term demigod Definition half god, half human, george washington