British Taxes
What 1773 colonial tax caused the Boston Tea Party?
The Tea Tax
What 1764 act aimed to stop the smuggling of sugar and molasses and to raise revenue for the British crown?
The Sugar Act
What was the response to the unfair tea taxes imposed by the British in Boston?
The Boston Tea Party
The king of Britain during the American Revolution:
King George III
This Massachusetts town was where one of the most notable tax protests in the American colonies took place:
Boston
This British tax taxed printed, patterned, or painted wallpaper:
The Wallpaper Tax
This act prohibited the colonies from printing their own paper money:
The Currency Act
What conflict was caused by tensions between British soldiers and American colonists in Boston, and took place on March 5, 1770?
The Boston Massacre
This secret society was formed to oppose British taxes, and is known for organizing the Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty
What was the Pennsylvania site of the Continental Army's winter encampment from Dec. 1777 - June 1778?
Valley Forge
This 1753 British tax taxed unmarried men over 21, to promote marriage and family stability:
The Bachelor Tax
This 1765 act required colonists to pay for an official seal on printed materials like newspapers and legal documents:
The Stamp Act
This practice was used by the American Colonies, in response to the Sugar and Currency Acts, who refused to use imported British goods:
Nonimportation
What British company greatly benefitted from the tea tax imposed on the colonies?
The British East India Company
What was the New York town in which the American army convinced the French army to join our side of the Revolution?
Saratoga
These 1767 British acts taxed the colonies on items like china, lead, paint, paper, and glass:
The Townshend Acts
What was the act the required certain items to only be shipped on English boats and to English ports?
The Navigation Act
What 1765 political document was formed in response to the Stamp Act, and stated how American colonists were equal to British Citizens?
The Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Who was Britain's Chancellor of Exchequer that imposed the taxes on important goods to the colonies?
Charles Townshend
The final major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in this Virginia town, where British General Cornwallis surrendered:
Yorktown
This war, spanning from 1756-1763, was a large reason in why the British severely taxed the colonies:
The Seven Year's War
What was the name the American colonies called these acts: The Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act
The Intolerable Acts
What specific political slogan fueled most of the Colonies' protests?
"Taxation without representation"
These local groups were established in the 1770s to coordinate resistance against British Rule:
Committees of Correspondence
This city in Pennsylvania was the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress and the site where the Declaration of Independence was signed:
Philadelphia