Taxes/Acts
Vocabulary
Declaration of Independence
Key People
Key Events
100

Sugar Act

What is a tax on sugar and molasses?

100
smuggle
What is to bring in or take out of a country secretly
100

What are "unalienable rights"?

What are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?

100

Your US History teacher

Who is the great and powerful Mr.Mercure?

100
Boston Massacre
What is event where colonists were taunting the British soldiers and 5 colonists died?
200

Stamp Act

What is a tax on all printed materials?

200
boycott
What is to refuse to buy
200
to be free of England's control
What is the reason the Declaration of Independence was written?
200

Thomas Jefferson

Who was the man that wrote the declaration of independence?

200

Boston Tea Party

What is the event where the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped 90, 000 pounds of tea in Boston Harbor?

300

Quartering Act

What is the act where colonists had to provide housing, supplies, and food for the soldiers?

300
Parliament
What is the group in Great Britain that makes laws
300

Who violated the colonist rights?

The King (George III)

300

Which group thought that British taxes were fair?

Who were Loyalists?

300

First Continental Congress

What is the event where delegates from 12 of the colonies met to discuss problems with England?

400
Currency Act
What is the act that prevented colonists from printing their own currency
400
repeal
What is to cancel
400

Define Revolution

What is the overthrowing of a government and replacing it?

400

Whos was the Commander of the Continental Army?

Who was George Washington?

400
Lexington and Concord
What is the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War?
500
Townshend Act
What is the tax on all imported materials from England
500
proclamation
What is a public announcement
500

Give me 2 out of 3 major events that lead to the creation of the declaration.

Intolerable Acts, Boston Massacre, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

500

Benjamin FranklinThe $100 founding father that solidified an alliance with France

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

500

July 4, 1776

When the colonies declare their independence from England?

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