Taxes
13 Colonies
Famous Colonists
European Colonies
Vocabulary
100

This law placed a tax on printed material in the colonies

Stamp Act

100

Jamestown was in what colony?

Virginia

100

He rode his horse to Lexington yelling the British are coming before being captured by the British.

Paul Revere

100

Established a vast colony in what is now Mexico and Florida

Spain

100

a refusal to buy goods

boycott

200

A tax or tariff on imported goods-on paper, tea, wool, and other goods

Townshend Acts

200

What colony did the Puritans start?

Massachusetts

200

He represented Virginia at the First Continental Congress and will one day become President.

George Washington

200

The 13 colonies belonged to this country...

Britain or England

200

to cancel

repeal

300

Law passed by Parliament stating that only the East India Company could sell tea to the 13 colonies

Tea Act

300

A colony established by Quakers?

Pennsylvania

300

He formed the Committees of Correspondence.

Samuel Adams

300

The colonies of Quebec and Montreal belonged to this country...

France

300

Britain's law-making assembly

Parliament

400

Protest against British tea tax in which the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor

Boston Tea Party

400

The colony that was a barrier between the rest of the English colonies and Spanish controlled Florida.

Georgia

400

A young Virginia lawyer who was one of the first to speak out against the Stamp Act.

Patrick Henry

400

New Amsterdam belonged to what country before it was taken over by the English and renamed New York

Netherlands or Holland

400

a tax on imports

tariff

500

Britain's punishment for the Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

500

The colony that was captured from the Dutch.

New York

500

He defended the British soldiers who shot their guns into the crowd during the Boston Massacre.

John Adams

500

What country founded St. Augustine?

Spain

500

a war Americans fought for independence

American Revolution

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