Vocab
Taxes
Boston Massacre
Tea Party
Misc.
100

to cancel or take away (example: taxes)

repeal

100

placed a tax on sugar and molasses

Sugar Act


100

How many colonists were killed?

5

100

Who did the colonists disguise themselves as?

Mohawk Indians

100

name of the peaceful protest group

Daughters of Liberty

200

violent protest group led by Samuel Adams

Sons of Liberty

200

What did the Townshend Acts tax? (5 things)

paper

paint

lead

tea

glass

200

Were the colonists completely innocent? Why or why not?

no; throwing snowballs and sticks at soldiers

200

How many crates of tea were dumped?

342

200

to stop purchasing/using a product

boycott

300

rifle with a knife at the end; weapon used by soldiers

bayonet

300

What tax prompted the Boston Tea Party?

tea act

300

What did the British call the Boston Massacre?

Incident on King Street

300

How many ships were used in the Boston Tea Party? Name 1

3

Dartmouth

300

another name for the Intolerable Acts

Coercive Acts

400

name of the British government

Parliament

400

What did the Quartering Act of 1765 say? How did it change in 1775?

provide food and clothing

then, had to provide shelter, also

400

the lawyer who defended the soldiers in court

John Adams

400

What was the punishment for the Boston Tea Party?

Intolerable Acts

400
Why were the soldiers stationed in the colonies to begin with?

to enforce order; to enforce the Proclamation Act 

500

created by the colonists in order to establish a plan to protest the tax on paper

Stamp Act Congress

500

The colonists had an issue with taxes because they had no _______________________.

representation in Parliament

500
Outcome of the trial

innocent? how many

guilt? how many

2 found guilty

6 innocent

500
Name one aspect of the Intolerable Acts?

-closed harbor

-King chooses governor

-trials in England

-expanded Quartering act

500

2 ways protesters targeted tax collectors

tar and feathering

hanging in effigy

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