VOCABULARY
THE COLONISTS PROTEST NEW TAXES
BOSTON MASSACRE
THE BRITISH COLONIES UNITE
MIXED BAG
100
A tax put on good being imported into the country
Duty
100
Name 2 things that the Townshend Act put taxes on
Cloth, paint, paper, glass & tea
100
The British soldiers sang this song to annoy the colonists
Yankee Doodle
100
Mercy Otis Warren (a woman - unusual at this time!) helped set up the Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence - what was their job?
Make sure the other colonies knew what was happening in Massachusetts
100
This was the only colony not represented at the First Continental Congress
Georgia
200
A group of citizens who act as soldiers in an emergency
Militia
200
The Townshend Acts allowed tax collectors to do this to the colonists homes
Search them without consent
200
This many British soldiers were guarding the customs house in Boston
10
200
The 1773 Tea Act gave these powers to the British East India Tea Company
Decide which colonial merchants could sell their tea
200
The First Continental Congress said this about the laws that Parliament had made since 1763
They were illegal
300
The cruel killing of a great number of people
Massacre
300
This happened at the Liberty Tree in Boston
Fake hanging of British official
300
Colonists threw these 2 things at the soldiers guarding the customs house in Boston.
Mud, snowballs, oyster shells & rocks
300
The colonists did this to protest against the Tea Act
Boston Tea Party - boarded British East India Tea ships dressed as Native Indians and smashed the tea chests and tipped them into the harbour
300
The First Continental Congress told each colony to set up one of these
Militia
400
An announcement
Declaration
400
The Daughter's of Liberty encouraged women to make this to avoid buying it from the British
Homespun cloth
400
This African American sailor encouraged colonists to taunt and throw insults at the soldiers guarding the customs house
Crispus Attucks
400
Name 1 way that the British Parliament punished the colonists
Closed port of Boston, removed rights of self-government to Massachusetts, made much of land west of Appalachians part of Canada
400
2 reasons why the British repealed the Townshend Acts
Boycott & violence of Boston Massacre
500
Too terrible to bear
Intolerable
500
The Daughter's of Liberty suggested drinking these 2 things instead of buying tea from the British
Coffee & herbal tea
500
This many colonists were killed in the Boston Massacre
5
500
After the Boston Tea Party King George punished the colonists with a new series of acts called this by the colonists
Intolerable Acts
500
The first colonists to die for freedom from British rule were killed at this event
Boston Tea Party
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