Taxes and Protests
Parliament passed these 1774 laws, including the closing of Boston Harbor, to punish Massachusetts for the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?
Britain’s huge war debt after this war was the main reason it began taxing the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
I wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This English philosopher argued that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, an idea that shaped the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
The first battles of the war took place in April 1775 in these two Massachusetts towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
In March 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd and killed five colonists in this city.
What is Boston (the Boston Massacre)?
Colonial boycotts of British goods led Parliament to do this to the Stamp Act in 1766.
What is repeal?
I commanded the Continental Army throughout the war.
Who is George Washington?
Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet attacked monarchy in plain language that ordinary colonists could understand.
What is Common Sense?
The Continental Army suffered through the winter of 1777-78 with shortages of food and clothing at this Pennsylvania camp.
What is Valley Forge?
These 1767 acts taxed glass, paper, lead, paint, and tea imported from Britain.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The Intolerable Acts had this unintended effect: delegates from the colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774 for this.
What is the First Continental Congress?
In 1776 I wrote to my husband, asking him to “remember the ladies” when writing new laws.
Who is Abigail Adams?
In July 1775, Congress sent this document to King George III, affirming loyalty and asking him to stop the fighting.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This 1777 victory in New York is considered the turning point of the war.
What is Saratoga?
This order banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
After the American victory at Saratoga, this European country agreed to an alliance with the United States.
What is France?
I posed as a runaway to spy for the Marquis de Lafayette, and my reports helped the Americans at Yorktown.
Who is James Armistead?
In this 1765 statement, delegates from nine colonies argued that only their own elected assemblies had the right to tax them.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Grievances?
This 1783 agreement ended the war and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1765 act taxed newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
The British surrender at this 1781 battle caused support for the war to collapse in Britain’s
What is Yorktown?
In 1781 I sued for my freedom in Massachusetts, using the state constitution’s claim that all people are born free and equal.
Who is Elizabeth Freeman?
To shape public opinion after the Boston Massacre, this Boston silversmith made an engraving showing British soldiers firing in an orderly line at an unarmed crowd.
Who is Paul Revere?
This Frenchman joined the Continental Army as a volunteer and became one of Washington’s trusted generals.
Who is the Marquis de Lafayette?