Causes
He was the leader of the Continental Army and became our first president.
Who was George Washington.
The act that put taxes on all paper products.
What was the Stamp Act?
The event where 5 colonist were killed by British Soldiers
What was the Boston Massacre?
Another word for a representative from a colony.
What was a delegate?
The King of England.
Who was King George III
A colonist that supported political freedom in the colonies was called...
What was a Patriot?
The event where colonist dressed up as Native American and dumped over 300 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The end result of the 1st Continental Congress.
What is the colonists asked the king and Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts?
Two important leaders of the Sons of Liberty.
Who were Samuel Adams & Paul Revere?
The French and British fought over land in the Ohio River Valley.
What was the French and Indian War?
A secret society of men who protested laws like the Stamp Act and boycotted British goods.
What was the Sons of Liberty?
Taxed tea, glass, lead, paints, and paper that the colonies imported was later repealed, but the tax on tea remained.
What were the Townshend Acts?
The first colonist to be killed during the Boston Massacre. He was free African American sailor.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
The reason Britain imposed taxes on the colonists?
A secret society of women Patriots who boycotted British goods and services and made their own cloth.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This act shut down Boston Harbor and happened as a result of the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
The colonist who represented the British soldiers during the trial after the Boston Massacre.
Who was John Adams?
The MAIN reason the colonists were angered.
What was they were asked to pay taxes without representation?
Who painted a famous depiction of the Boston Massacre?
Who was Paul Revere?
The only colony to not send a delegate to the 1st Continental Congress?
What was Georgia?