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 YouTuber recently opened a theme park in Saudi Arabia.
Who is Mr. Beast?
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?
Multiple stories are coming out around the country with companies adopting this new type of technology, to make things easier or cheaper.
What is A.I., or artificial intelligence?
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?
Students and professors in this war torn city have begun to head back to school.
What is Gaza?
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 island country recently experienced a large earthquake and tsunami's.
What is Japan?
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?
The United States is currently being investigated for allegedly committing war crimes outside of this country.
What is Venezuela?