Sugar Act
True or False? The Sugar Act lowered the tax on molasses.
True
The Stamp Act required stamps to be put onto all types of this.
What is paper?
This man created an engraving of the Boston Massacre that was used to gain sympathy for the colonial side.
Who is Paul Revere?
The Boston Tea Party happened in December 1773, in response to this British Act.
What is the Tea Act?
This means to not buy a particular good or service.
What is boycott?
The Sugar Act lowered the tax on this thick substance that was traded and used to make rum.
What is molasses?
The Stamp Act was passed in what year?
What is 1765?
This man was the first African-American man to be killed in the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The colonists dressed in disguise as this group of people.
Who are Native Americans?
These acts taxed paper, lead, tea, glass, and many other goods.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The Sugar Act was passed to combat what illegal activity?
What is smuggling?
The Stamp Act was "this" in 1766, meaning to overturn.
What is repeal?
2 British soldiers were found guilty of this crime, where murder occurs but is not planned.
What is manslaughter?
The Tea Act gave this company a virtual monopoly of tea in British North America.
What is the British East India Tea Company?
As part of the Intolerable/Coercive Acts, this act gave the Ohio River Valley to the colony of Canada.
What is the Quebec Act?
This British Prime Minister passed the Sugar Act to combat smuggling.
Who is George Grenville?
People burned straw or rag figures dressed as British officials, known as these.
What are effigies?
This term means a way of influencing public opinion.
What is propaganda?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British passed a series of acts to punish Massachusetts, known as these.
What are the Coercive Acts?
This act allowed British soldiers to be forced to live in colonial houses.
What is the Quartering Act?
The Sugar Act was passed in what year?
What is 1764?
The British passed this Act after the repeal of the Stamp Act, saying that they had the right to tax the colonists without their consent.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This later Patriot defended the British soldiers accused of killing American colonists in the Boston Massacre.
Who is John Adams?
The American colonists referred to the Coercive Acts as these, due to the severity of them.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Name at least 3 things the Intolerable/Coercive Acts did to punish Massachusetts.
What is the Quebec Act, Quartering Act, banning town meetings, closing Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for, removed colonial authority