Acts
This 1765 act required colonists to house and supply British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
This 1770 event in Boston resulted in the deaths of five colonists and increased anti-British sentiments.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This 1763 treaty ended the French and Indian War and ceded French territory in North America to Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This term refers to the refusal to buy goods as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
This phrase from the Declaration of Independence asserts that all men are endowed with certain unalienable rights
What is “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”?
This act imposed taxes on paper, paint, glass, and tea imported into the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This 1773 protest saw colonists disguised as Native Americans dump tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This fort, located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, was a key strategic point during the French and Indian War.
What is Fort Duquesne?
This term describes a formal written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people
What is a petition?
These four punitive measures, enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party, included closing the port of Boston, altering the Massachusetts government, allowing royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in Britain, and expanding the Quartering Act.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This 1773 act granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
This group, formed in 1765, organized protests against British policies and played a major role in the American Revolution.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This 1754 plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin aimed to unite the colonies for mutual defense.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This term refers to a colonist who remained loyal to Britain during the American Revolution.
What is a Loyalist?
This term describes rights that cannot be surrendered, sold, or transferred to someone else, as stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What are inalienable rights?
This 1764 act aimed to reduce smuggling by lowering the tax on molasses but enforcing stricter regulations.
What is the Sugar Act?
This 1774 meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies was held in response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This Native American leader led a rebellion against British forces in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War.
Who is Pontiac?
This term describes a colonist who supported independence from Britain.
What is a Patriot?
The presence of British soldiers in Boston, which created tension. Another cause was an incident where a British soldier did not pay his bill and was running away, leading to a confrontation.
What are the causes of the Boston Massacre?
This series of punitive measures were passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine in 1776, argued for American independence from Britain.
What is “Common Sense”?
Forbade the colonists to move past the mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This group, known for organizing protests against British policies, also supported the Homespun Movement to promote American-made goods
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
These two acts, which imposed taxes on the colonies, were repealed due to widespread protest and boycotts by the colonists. One imposed a direct tax on printed materials and was repealed in 1766, while the other imposed duties on various goods and was partially repealed in 1770.
What are the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts?