Acts
Strengths and Weaknesses
Toward Independence
Miscellaneous
People
100
A cost-savings measure requiring the colonies to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies.
What is the Quartering Act?
100
Weakness: Never had more than 20,000 troops at one time and place.
Who were the Americans?
100
Declaration of Independence author.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
To abstain from buying or using a product as a means of protest
What is a boycott?
100
King of England during Revolutionary period
Who is King George III?
200
Parliament required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official mark showing a tax had been paid. Diplomas, contracts, wills, and playing cards had to carry it.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
Weakness: Plagued by shortages in food, guns, and gun powder.
Who were the Americans?
200
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued that American's owed no loyalty to Britain.
What is Common Sense?
200
British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five americans
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
Lawyer who represented the soldiers on trial for murder in 1770.
Who was John Adams?
300
A series of laws passed by Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colony and serve as a warning to other colonies. Called Coercive Acts by the British. One of these acts closed the Port of Boston until all destroyed tea was paid for. Anger against these united the colonists. Other laws allowed British soldiers to be tried in Britain, sent additional troops to the colonies, and revoked the Massachusetts' Charter.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
300
Strength: Received help from the French
Who were the Americans?
300
The ultimate breakup letter claimed that "all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
Groups that exchanged letters to keep informed of what England was doing
What is Committees of Correspondence?
300
Said, "Give me Liberty or give me Death.", A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
Who is Patrick Henry?
400
King George III's declares that colonists were not to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains as a means of reducing conflict with the Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?
400
Strength: Hired Hessian mercenaries to help fight.
Who were the British.
400
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
400
A government tax on imports or exports
What is a duty?
400
Leader of the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams?
500
Placed a tax on coffee, indigo, and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
500
Strength: Recruited Loyalists, African- and Native-Americans to fight for their cause.
Who were the British?
500
Date of the surprise attack on the Hessians
What is December 25, 1776?
500
A formal written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people
What is a petition?
500
Famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)
Who is Pontiac?
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