Vocab
A formal written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people
Petition
England's first major attempt to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War, this tax was on sugar and molasses.
The Sugar Act
"No taxation without representation!" is a catchy phrase if not exactly what this person said. Who is it?
Patrick Henry
Who won the French and Indian War?
The British
When the British were coming, how did the Colonists get the word out?
Lanterns in the church tower.
The nonviolent refusal to obey laws that one considers to be unjust
Civil Disobedience
This law gave a monopoly to the East India Tea Company.
The Tea Tax
A formerly enslaved African American, he was killed at the Boston Massacre and is considered one of the first casualties of the Revolutionary War.
Crispus Attucks
Nobody was totally innocent when Colonists through snowballs with rocks at British soldiers and then the soldiers shot the protestors. What was the event?
The Boston Massacre.
This was a secret group of colonial figures who met to organize protests against the British.
The Sons of Liberty
A person or nation that works with another person or nation for a common purpose
Ally
Passed in 1765, this was a tax on legal documents.
The Stamp Act
A Virginia planter and surveyor, this former British soldier would go on to become the General of the Colonial army.
George Washington
What is another word for soldiers for hire?
Mercenaries
Led by Sam Adams, what disguise did the Sons of Liberty use during the Boston Tea Party?
Mohawk Native Americans
An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency
Militia
After England repealed one set of taxes, this new tax was named after the English exchequer and it replaced them with a bunch of NEW taxes.
The Townshend Act
The 16 year old woman rode out the same night as Paul Revere, and rode twice as far to warn the colonists that the British were on their way.
Sybil Luddington
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, no one knows who fired the first shot, but the Colonists fled from the initial battle, regrouped, then successfully fought back at a neighboring town.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The colonists signal was one if by land, two if by what?
Sea
A person who betrays his or her country
Traitor
As a result of the Stamp Act, colonists met in New York to plan how to protest British taxes at this meeting.
The Stamp Act Congress
King George III's royal Exchequer, he replaced bad taxes with new taxes... that were also bad.
Charles Townshend
Settling the land in the Ohio River Valley kicked of what war?
The French and Indian War
What color was George Washington's white horse?
White