Acts and Proclamations
Required colonists to provide food, drink, and housing to British soldiers stationed in their towns or villages.
Quartering Act
What was Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. Identify the name of the punishment for Massachusetts and the warning to other colonies.
Intolerable Acts
Who was the most famous victim of the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
What law did the British create to stop smuggling?
Writs of Assistance
This act taxed textiles and coffee, and was strictly enforced
Sugar Act
What allowed the East India Tea Company of Britain to sell tea in America at a cheap price. Made taxed tea even cheaper than smuggled tea. They were still upset and didn't buy the tea.
Tea Act
What Sons of Liberty member helped plan the Boston Tea Party?
Sam Adams
Jefferson states three Natural Rights in the Declaration of Independence.
Identify his three Natural Rights
The Enlightenment thinker who Jefferson took the idea from and that persons' 3 Natural Rights.
Jefferson- Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
John Lock- Life, Liberty, Property
What did the Stamp Act tax? 3 Needed
Newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, land deeds, marriage licenses, dice
Explain how the French and Indian War helped cause the American Revolution.
The French and Indian War cause the British to be in a large amount of debt. The British taxed the colonist to pay off the debt but did not give the colonists representation in government.
Define Loyalist, Patriot, Redcoat, and Lobster-back
Loyalists is a colonists who stays loyal to the British
Patriot is a colonists who wants to break from the British
Redcoat and Lobster-back refer to a British soldier
How did Paul Revere us the Boston Massacre as propaganda?
He made the picture / etching of the Boston Massacre and made the British look bad. No clubs in the colonists hands, British commander looking like he said fire, no snowballs, and the title was it the Bloody Massacre.
What did the Townshend Act Tax? 3 needed.
Glass, silk, lead, paint, paper and tea.
Describe why the British went to Concord and what happened to them on the march back towards Boston.
Went to Concord to take colonial ammunition and guns. On the march back to Boston the colonists shot at them and used hit and run/ guerrilla tactics.
What two men were the British marching out to capture at Lexington?
John Hancock and Sam Adams
The Declaration of Independence had a list of complaints. The sentences start off with He and For.
Who is the He referring to and what group is the For referring to?
He - King George III
For- British Parliament
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do and why were the colonists upset with the law?
caitlin
Cut off the land west of the Appalachian Mountains to new colonists. The were upset because it cut off the land that they had fought for in the French and Indian war. Loss of land, $ and resources
Before the Declaration of Independence Ben Franklin helped create what proposal that called for the colonists to unite?
Albany Plan of Union
Identify the 5 member committee responsible for writing the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston.
What British Act was repealed? Why was it repealed? And what was the British written response to the repeal?
Stamp Act was repealed because the colonists protested and the British wrote the Declaratory Act stating that they were still in control of the colonies.