Money & War
Britain needed money because they had just finished fighting this expensive war against France.
The French and Indian War
This specific Act placed a tax on all legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
Stamp Act
This type of protest involves refusing to buy goods from a certain country or company.
A Boycott
This event involved a nervous group of British soldiers firing into a crowd of angry colonists who were throwing snowballs.
The Boston Massacre
As part of the Intolerable Acts, Britain closed this important location, stopping all trade.
Boston Harbor
Because the British government spent so much on the war, they found themselves in a massive amount of this.
Debt
The Sugar Act placed a tax on sugar and this sticky liquid used to make sweeteners.
Molasses
This is the general term for showing disagreement or speaking out against a rule you don't like.
Protest
The Boston Tea Party resulted in the destruction of British property by throwing it into this body of water.
The Boston Harbor
This term describes how the thirteen colonies began to work together instead of acting alone.
Unity
Britain chose to tax the colonies because the colonies were part of Britain and were doing well in this way.
The colonies were making money, they were doing well financially.
These Acts placed taxes on glass, paint, paper, and tea.
Townshend Acts
During the Boston Tea Party, colonists famously disguised themselves as this group of people.
Native Americans (Mohawk Indians)
This was the main "effect" of the Boston Massacre on the colonies.
Increased anger and mistrust
Under the Intolerable Acts, colonists were forced to do this for British soldiers in their own homes.
Quarter (or house/feed) them. (The Quartering Act)
This law-making group in Britain was the one creating taxes without asking the colonists.
Parliament
This famous five-word phrase summarized why the colonists thought the taxes were unfair.
"No Taxation Without Representation"
Before turning to war, colonists used protests and boycotts because they wanted this to happen first.
Change (or a peaceful resolution)
Britain's reaction to the Boston Tea Party was to pass these harsh laws to punish the city of Boston.
The Intolerable Acts
According to Woods Runner, this type of life was very different from the city life of Boston.
Frontier Life
While city colonists were angry about taxes, this Woods Runner character lived in the forest and was not yet affected by British laws.
Samuel
To the colonists, "Representation" meant having one of these in Parliament to speak or vote for them.
a voice (or a representative)
This famous patriot created an engraving of the Boston Massacre to make the British look like villains.
Paul Revere
This was the "cause" that led directly to the Boston Tea Party.
The Tea Act