Liberty

1. Liberty The quality or state of being free

2. Proclamation- an official, formal public announcement

3. Boycott – to refuse to purchase certain goods or services

4. Repeal – to cancel a law

5. Duty – a tax on an imported good

6. Smuggling – the act of importing or exporting secretly in violation of law and especially without paying duty on goods.

7. Delegate – a representative to a meeting

8. Debate – to discuss or argue

9. Authority – the power to make others obey

10. Indentured servant – a worker who contracted for food and shelter in return for his labor.

11. Dissenter – one who opposes official or commonly held rules.

12. Economy – a system for making choices about ways to use resources to fulfill needs or wants.

13. Cash crop – a crop produced mainly for sale

14. Plantation – a huge estate

15. Benefit – to be useful or profitable to

16. A government based on a representative government is called a republic

17. Coming to America • The main economic reason was to be able to make a living and improve life for their family.

18. Colonies were not all founded by just English settlers, there were other nationalities here as well

19. However, the English leaders believed that the main purpose of the colonies existence was to benefit England.

20. Cash crops helped turn New York City into a busy port

21. By the mid 1700’s most of the colonies were very unhappy under British rule

22. The Puritans were religious dissenters

23. Preachers who were part of the Great Awakening urged people to create a personal connection with God

24. Meanwhile, Colonists had grown tired of British rule and were now used to governing themselves with their own legislatures

25. The king’s governors representing the colonists did not put the colonists needs first!

26. The British had moved onto French land causing the 7 year French-Indian War

27. The British Won the French-Indian War

28. After the war, the British controlled all the land up to the Mississippi River

29. King George enacted the Stamp Act in order to raise money to pay off war debt

30. The Boston Tea party protested against British policies

31. The Coercive Act allowed Parliament to tax the colonies and make all decisions for them.

32. The Coercive Act A.K.A. the Intolerable Acts were meant to serve as a punishment to the colonists for doing things like the Boston Tea Party and for resisting British rule.

33. The result of the Coercive Act was that it made the colonists band together to help Massachusetts challenge British authority

34. The actions taken by the first Continental Congress was: • To write King George and ask that britain respect the colonists rights. • To organize a total boycott of British goods and on all trade with Britain

35. The Second Continental Congress • Met in May of 1775 • Delegates were split on whether they should work for peace • Or to split up with Britain for good

36. Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine

37. After reading the pamphlet… • More and more delegates began to favor independence from Great Britain

38. Thomas Jefferson offered further proof that their social contract with Britain had been broken

39. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776

40. The Declaration of Independence is the first official documentto give people the right to consent to their government