7th Grade Test #1

Acts/Taxes

100

The Stamp Act

- first direct tax on the colonies 

- all legal documents had to be written on specially stamped paper 

- also taxed newspapers, dices, and playing cards 

200

The Townsend Acts 

• Series of measures passed by Parliament in 1767
• Taxed goods imported to the colonies
• The acts were repealed in 1770

300

The Tea Act 

- Gave the British East India Tea Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies

- It was the final straw that led to the Boston Tea Party

400

The Coercive/"Intolerable" Acts 

- British response to the Boston Tea Party 

- Colonists felt these acts took away their rights and liberties

- Renamed the Intolerable Acts by the colonists

Pre-War Events

100

The Proclamation of 1763 

- Followed the French and Indian War 

- Great Britain declared that the colonists could not settle past the Appalachian mountains 

200

The Boston Massacre 

- a mob of angry colonists were protesting the Townsend Acts 

- British soldiers shot into the crowd 

- 5 colonists died 

300

The Boston Tea Party 

- Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans 

- They dumped British East India Tea Company Tea into the Boston Harbor 

- It was a protest of the Tea Act 

400

Common Sense by Thomas Paine 

- written in 1776 

- Paine wanted to convince fellow colonists that independence from Great Britain was necessary 

Key Battles

100

Lexington and Concord 

• First fighting of the revolution
• “shot heard around the world”
• British realized defeating the colonists would not be easy

200

Battle of Bunker/Breed's Hill 

• British forced the colonists to surrender Bunker Hill 
• colonists put up a good fight 
• King of England realize the Revolution should be treated like a real war

300

Battle of Trenton 

• Washington’s troops had the element of surprise for this attack
• Colonial troops moved at night and split into 2 groups to surround the British
• Colonial victory

400

Battle of Saratoga 

• Colonial victory
• The turning point of the war
• Convinced foreign countries like France to support the Revolution

Home Front

100

Loyalists 

• Person who lived in the colonies and maintained their loyalty to Great Britain

200

Native Americans 

• Patriots viewed Native Americans as enemies throughout the war
• Tribes worked to protect their land
• Many tribes remained neutral

300

African Americans 

• British offered freedom to those who would fight 
• thought that the Revolution would mean freedom for them as well

400

Women

• Took over family businesses and farms
• Went to the front lines of war to work as nurses and to aid soldiers