Student Name: __________________________

Instructions: Use the terms and phrases in the box below to fill in the blank spaces. Be
sure to check your dictionary before you write an answer.

Atlantic World, colonialism, colony, European enlightenment,

revolution, immigration, taxation, duties, Navigation Acts, protest,
rebellion, mercantilism, laissez-faire, Boston Tea Party, “No Taxation
Without Representation”, New England states, “Declaration of
Independence”, confrontation, aggression, constitution, sanctions,
sovereignty, mother country, British North American Colonies,
political upheavals, continental congress.

1. The________________________ was the body of delegates who spoke and acted

collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of
America.
2. A _____________________ is the overthrow or disruption of a government.
3. Britain was the ______________ to her 13 North American colonies until they declared
their independence on July 4th, 1776.
4. These laws of the British Parliament tried to promote the self-sufficiency of the
British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing
dependence on foreign imported goods, they were the __________________ .
5. The_____________ refers to the interactions among countries, empires and peoples
who travelled and traded in areas washed by the Atlantic Ocean between the 15th-21st
century.
6. A settlement in a foreign land that is owned by another country, is a _____________ .
7. A ________________ a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a
new system.
8. The ______________________ was an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th
centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were debated
and spread through all classes.
9. __________________ is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
10. A __________ took place yesterday, citizens took action against the killing of women
and voiced their disapproval.
11. _________________ is a policy of leaving things to take their own course, without
interfering.
12. ________________ is a system of charging persons a percentage on the cost of goods
or services , in order to give it to the government.
13. _______________ are the tax collected on imports and some exports by a country's
customs authorities.
14. An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader is called a
___________.
15. A hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between opposing parties is a
________________.
16. ________________ is an economic practice where a Government/empire seeks
to export more than they import and save up wealth in the form of bullion (gold
and silver).
17. Coined by James Otis in 1761,
“____________________________________________” showed the anger of
American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they elected no
representatives and became an anti-British slogan before the American Revolution.

18. The ______________________ was the founding document of the United States, was
approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and announced the separation
of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.

19. This political protest occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston,
Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation
without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India
Company into the harbor. It was the _____________________.
20. A ____________ can be a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
21. ______________ is behavior that is intended to harm another individual.
22. These were 13 in all and owned by Britain until their independence in 1776, the
_________________________.
23. This means to have supreme authority within a territory, called _______________.
24. __________________ is the policy or practice of having full or partial political control
over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
25. This region consisted of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode
Island, the __________________________________.
26. This is a set of principles and laws used to govern a country or organisation, is
the ______________ .