Colonial Life
This region had rocky soil, cold winters, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
What is New England?
This 1764 law taxed sugar, molasses, and other imported goods.
What is the Sugar Act?
This means refusing to buy goods as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
This patriot leader helped organize protests in Massachusetts and was connected to the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Samuel Adams?
Britain passed new taxes after this war left it with a large debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
This region was known as the “breadbasket” because it grew lots of grain.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This 1765 law taxed paper goods like newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group organized protests, boycotts, and public pressure against British laws.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This Boston patriot warned colonists that British troops were marching before Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
Colonists became angry after Britain told them they could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These crops were grown to sell for money, such as tobacco, rice, and indigo
What are cash crops?
These acts taxed imported goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This group of colonial women supported resistance by boycotting British goods and making homespun cloth.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This man was killed in the Boston Massacre and is often remembered as one of the first people killed in the conflict.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The Boston Massacre increased colonial anger toward this group stationed in Boston.
Who were British soldiers?
This means people help rule themselves through their own laws and leaders.
What is self-government?
This law required colonies to help provide housing and supplies for British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
This protest happened when colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This British general ordered troops to march to Lexington and Concord to seize colonial weapons.
Who is Thomas Gage?
Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish Boston for this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Colonial life helped prepare colonists for revolution because they were used to making these kinds of decisions.
What are local decisions or self-government?
This act said Parliament could make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
What is the Declaratory Act?
This meeting in 1774 helped unite the colonies in response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This Virginian was known for strong speeches against British rule and believed colonists should stand up for their rights.
Who is Patrick Henry?
Instead of weakening colonial resistance, the Intolerable Acts helped do this to the colonies.
What is unite them?