Road to Revolution/ Declaration of Independence

Boycott?

• To refuse to buy something, use something or take part in something as a way of protesting.
• Someone who has been elected or chosen to speak, vote, or take decisions for a group.
• A complete and permanent change of something.

Delegate?

• To refuse to buy something, use something or take part in something as a way of protesting.
• Someone who has been elected or chosen to speak, vote, or take decisions for a group.
• A complete and permanent change of something.

Revolution?

• To refuse to buy something, use something or take part in something as a way of protesting.
• Someone who has been elected or chosen to speak, vote, or take decisions for a group.
• A complete and permanent change of something.

Loyalists?

• Colonists who chose to stay loyal to Great Britain.
• Colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain.
• Someone who has been chosen to speak, vote, or make decisions for someone else.

Patriots?

• Colonists who chose to stay loyal to Great Britain.
• Colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain.
• Someone who has been chosen to speak, vote, or make decisions for someone else.

Representative?

• Colonists who chose to stay loyal to Great Britain.
• Colonists who chose to fight for independence from Great Britain.
• Someone who has been chosen to speak, vote, or make decisions for someone else.

Tyranny?

• Cruel and unfair government or cruel and unfair control over other people.
• The crime of being disloyal to your country or its government, especially by helping its enemies or trying to remove the government using violence.
• A complete and permanent change of something.

Treason?

• Cruel and unfair government or cruel and unfair control over other people.
• The crime of being disloyal to your country or its government, especially by helping its enemies or trying to remove the government using violence.
• A complete and permanent change of something.

Why was this phrase "No Taxation without Representation" so important to the revolutionary cause?

• It was used as form of protest because the colonist felt that their government was not respecting their rights.
• It was important because Great Britain would have ended taxation if colonist had kept the peace

Why were the American Colonist taxed after the French and Indian War?

• Britain was in debt and needed money
• That was the agreement with the Native Americans