Battles
What were the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This was a tax on sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act?
This said that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
What is the Declaratory Act?
Someone who supports independence from Great Britain
What is a Patriot?
He was in the British Army during the French and Indian War and is appointed Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
Who was George Washington?
This patriot victory convinced France to join the war and fight against the British too
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This was a tax on printed goods such a newspaper, wills, playing cards and newspapers
What is the Stamp Act?
The killing of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770
What is the Boston Massacre?
Someone who does not support independence from Great Britain
What is a Loyalist?
He warns the Patriots of approaching Redcoats and created the infamous picture "The Bloody Massacre" about the Boston Massacre
Who is Paul Revere?
The British attempted to arrest Patriot leaders and steal the colonial militia's stockpile of weapons in Concord
What causes the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This said that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains, in the newly acquired Ohio Valley territory
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This told King George III that the colonists were still loyal subjects and would stop rebelling if the matter of unfair taxation was resolved. The King never responded.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This economic systems requires countries to sell more to other countries than it buys from other countries, requiring colonies for raw materials
What is mercantilism?
He was a Patriot, a lawyer and, later, the 2nd president of the United States
Who was John Adams?
The British charge up the hill three times before taking it from the patriots, after they lose almost half their army
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This law was passed to help support the struggling East India Tea Company and actually lowered the tax on tea
What was the Tea Act?
Because Great Britain was in debt after the French and Indian War and needed a way to make money
Why did the British start to tax the colonists?
Great Britain's unofficial policy of not enforcing its laws in the colonies
What is salutary neglect?
This was a sometimes radical group that formed to oppose British taxation and undermine British rule in the colonies
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Surrounded on all sides, Cornwallis surrendered to the Patriot forces here
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
These were taxes on everyday items such as paper, glass, lead, etc.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The British respond to the Boston Tea Party by issuing these
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This extended the boundaries of Quebec, reinstated French civil law and protections for the Catholic Church
What is the Quebec Act?
What was the slogan of the Sons of Liberty and other opposed to British taxation in the colonies?
No taxation without representation