Chapter 2 Section 2: Uniting for Independence

Stamp Act of 1765

King George III set this imposed the first direct tax on the colonists it required them to pay a tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, and even dice and playing cards Parliament also passed laws to control colonial trade in ways that benefited Great Britain but not the colonies

Albany Plan of Union

Proposed by Benjamin Franklin because of the French attacks on the frontier colonies rejected the plan plan for uniting the colonies

who wrote draft of Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson the Declaration of Independence's purpose was to justify the revolution and to put forth the founding principles of the new nation

Intolerable Acts

a term coined by colonists the real name was the Coercive Acts Parliament's retaliation against the Boston Tea Party

embargo

imposed during the First Continental Congress an agreement prohibiting trade, on Britain, and agreed not to use British goods led to the battle at Lexington and Concord the clash later called the "shot heard 'round the world" first battle of the Revolutionary War

resolution in the Continental Congress

lee introduced this and said "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states"

committees of correspondence

organizations urging resistance to the British

French and Indian War

started as a struggle between the French and British over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio Great Britain won the war other European countries were involved left with huge war debt defeat of France in America meant that Americans no longer needed the British to protect them from the French

revenue

the money a government collects from taxes or other sources

Common Sense

written by Thomas Paine argued that monarchy was a corrupt form of government and that George III was an enemy to liberty