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The taxing of molasses and other products that were imported to the American colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
Colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Additional taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What is the Townsend Acts?
Meeting with 12 of the 13 colonies to discuss "No Taxation without Representation"
What is the First Continental Congress?
War between the colonies of Britain and New France over land
What is the French and Indian War?
Taxes the colonist had to pay on every piece of printed paper like newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards
What is the Stamp Act?
British soldiers shot and killed 5 colonists in the streets of Boston. Known as the event that started the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Series of laws that were passed that caused the colonists to struggle financially.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Law passed by the British. Colonists had to provide soldiers with housing or needed accommodations.
What is the Quartering Act?
This means Colonists shouldn't be taxed without having representatives in Parliament
What is "No Taxation without Representation"?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The document that was adopted by the Continental Congress that made the United States of America
What is the Declaration of Independence?
the original signing date of the Declaration of Independence
What is July 4, 1776?
A secret organization formed in Boston in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act
What is the Sons of Liberty?
The body of representatives that makes laws for Great Britain
What is Parliament?
Rode through the town warning "the British are coming, the British are coming"
Who is Paul Revere?
to stop buying or using something as a form of protest
What is boycott?
freedom to make decisions for oneself
What is independence?
wrote a pamphlet titled Common Sense which helped lead to the writing of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
King of England during the American Revolution
Who was King George III?
The natural rights (unalienable rights) listed in the Declaration of Independence
What are Right to Life, Right to Liberty, and the Right to the Pursuit of Happiness?
How many colonies were there?
What is 13?
A complaint, especially one due to unfair treatment
What is a grievance?
Cruel and unreasonable rule
What is tyranny?
Said "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?