Lesson 1
to refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one's terms.
What is a boycott?
This event had protesters fighting against a tax on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These people boasted that they would be ready for a fight in a 'minutes' noticed.
What is a minutemen.
the introduction to a formal document that often tells why the document was written.
What is a preamble?
This company will probably be banned in the US by January 19th.
What is Tik Tok.
This is how colonists avoided paying taxes on sugar, printed materials, or imports.
What is smuggling?
This event started as a simple disagreement but grew into a violent protest.
What is the Boston Massacre?
American colonists who favored american independence.
What is a Patriot?
This person was chosen by the Second Continental Congress to lead the continental army against Great Britain.
Who is George Washington?
The leader of this middle eastern government was recently overthrown by its citizens.
What is Syria?
This Act required colonists to buy a stamp for printed materials, such as; newspapers, wills, even playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help a cause.
What is propaganda?
This person, a member of the Sons of Liberty, rode from Boston to Lexington to warn that the British were approaching.
Who is Paul Revere or William Dawes?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This country declared war on Hamas and has been sending ground troops into the Gaza strip.
What is Israel?
This act lowered the tax on molasses, but gave officers the right to seize goods from accused smugglers without going to court.
What is the Sugar Act?
The first person killed for American defiance of British rule.
Who is Crispus Attucks
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
What is the battle at Lexington and Concord.
This popular pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, helped spread the idea of breaking away from Britain, helping convince colonists that Independance was a good idea.
What is Common Sense?
This church has just finished being restored after a large part of it was destroyed in a fire.
What is Notre Dame.
This pamphlet popularized ideas to leave Great Britian.
What is Common Sense?
This person tried to punish Colonists for their actions in Boston, realizing he was losing control of the colonists, he declared "We must either master them or totally leave them to themselves."
Who is King George III?
This group decided that the 13 acts British Parliament passed were illegal, to boycott british goods, and to prepare for war.
What is the Continental Congress.
A petition sent to King James in order to try to calm tensions between the colonies and Great Britain.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
Multiple countries have recommended some subspecies of this animal be added to the endangered animals list.
What is a giraffe?