British Acts 1
This act placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and coffee.
What is the Sugar Act?
This act required a special stamp be purchased and affixed to certain paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
The fort in New York that Patriots captured without firing a single gunshot in 1775.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
What is the French and Indian War?
This act required citizens to house soldiers in their private homes.
What is the Quartering Act?
This act placed a tax on multiple goods, including glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The event in which colonists threw British goods overboard in the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The name for colonists who sided with Britain.
This name refers to a collective group of 4 acts passed at once.
What are the Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts?
This act stated that Parliament had the power to pass any law it wanted.
What is the Declaratory Act?
The skirmish viewed as the first victory for the Patriots, despite the war not officially starting yet.
What is the skirmish at Concord?
The Second Continental Congress created the official ___________ with George Washington as commander in chief.
What is the Continental Army?
This act prohibited colonial migration past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act gave customs officials the right to investigate and put a stop to smuggling via writs of assistance (search warrants).
What are the Navigation and Trade Acts?
The first real battle between the British and Patriots, in which the Patriots lost their fortifications around Boston after running out of ammunition.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The organization set up by First Continental Congress to create an official boycott of British goods across all 13 colonies.
The act that closed the harbor in Boston to any import or export.
What is the Boston Port Act?
The act that revoked the Massachusetts colonial charter.
What is the Massachusetts Government Act?
What is Lexington?
The British passed an act that put a monopoly on this product, which the colonists boycotted in response.
What is tea?