Laws
Causes
Point of View
Definitions
Miscellaneous
100
This law required colonists to pay taxes on printed paper, such as newspapers
What is the Stamp Act
100
This event left Britain in debt, which caused Parliament to pass many laws requiring colonists to pay taxes
What is the French and Indian War
100
Paul Revere portrayed the colonists as innocent in this famous engraving
What is the engraving of the Boston Massacre
100
This is the name for the law making part of the British government
What is Parliament
100
This is the term for unpaid bills
What is debt
200
This law forced colonists to allow soldiers to stay in their homes and provide them with food and other supplies.
What is the Quartering Act
200
Colonists led this protest against the Tea Act
What is the Boston Tea Party
200
This political cartoon showed the colonists as lawless troublemakers
What is The Bostonians Paying the Excise Man (the tarring and feathering of the tax collector)
200
This is the name for the group of Patriot men responsible for the Boston Tea Party
What is Sons of Liberty
200
This is the name of the law that required colonists to pay taxes on lead, paint, and tea
What is the Townshend Act
300
This law prevented colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763
300
Britain passed this law because of fighting between the colonists and natives in the west
What is the Proclamation of 1763
300
These colonists did not become Loyalists or Patriots
Neutralists (Neutral)
300
This phrase was used by colonists to express their unhappiness about not having a say about their own laws
What is "taxation without representation"
300
Colonists lost their jobs and worried they would starve because of this act that was part of the Intolerable Acts
What is the Boston Port Act
400
These laws were made to punish the colonists
What are the Intolerable Acts
400
Due to angry protests, the King repealed this law in 1766
What is the Stamp Act
400
This is the name for the murder of people who cannot defend themselves
What is massacre
400
This is the name of the territory Britain and France fought over during the French and Indian War
What is the Ohio River Valley
500
This law said that the British East India Company was the only company that could sell tea to the colonists
What is the Tea Act
500
This meeting of angry colonists happened in Philadelphia after the Intolerable Acts were passed to discuss the growing tension with Britain
What is the First Continental Congress
500
This is the name for the group of women who participated in the Revolution by boycotting and throwing tea into the harbor
What is Daughters of Liberty
500
What is the definition of repeal?
To take back, or to cancel, a law
500
This is the metaphor used to describe the relationship between the colonies and Britain
What is parent and child
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