American Revolution #1
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper. The tax was put into place to have the colonists pay Britain back for their help during the French and Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act?
This war occurred because the French and British wanted to control the Ohio River Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
This event happened when a group of angry colonists began attacking British soldiers with snowballs. It resulted in 5 colonists dead.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The colonists were so upset about the tax on tea that they several Sons of Liberty dressed up like Mohawk Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This word means freedom from being ruled by someone else.
What is "independence"?
freedoms protected by the law or government
What are "rights"?
One that wanted to be free from British rule.
What is a "patriot"?
The nickname given to British soldiers.
"redcoats"
This word means the defeat of an army.
What is "victory"?
This is someone who is disloyal to his or her country.
What is a "traitor"?
Britain would only allows their tea company to import tea to the colonies.
What is the Tea Act
He helped to edit the Declaration of Independence. He also assisted the colonial army by getting supplies from France. He represented the colonists when signing the Treaty of Paris.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
British wanted to punish colonist for dumping the tea. They sent Thomas Gage to close the port and restrict town meetings. They couldn't trade and many people lost their jobs.
What are the intolerable acts
His was the one that warned that the Redcoats (British army) was coming during the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
He is a famous traitor to the colonists but a hero in England
Who is Benedict Arnold
British Law forcing colonists to feed and house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
He was the one that shared many of his ideas about the colonists' independence by writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Taxes on imported goods.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Representative from each colony met to discuss the approaching war.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Person that said "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
What year did the United States officially become independent?
1783
The "Shot Heard Around the World" happened here.
Battle Of Lexington
Refusal to buy goods. Effect of the Townshend Acts.
What is a boycott?
He was the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The colonies loved his leadership so much that they made him the first official President of the colonies.
Who is George Washington?
DOUBLE POINTS.... These laws were passed because the British wanted to punish the colonists for dumping the tea into Boston Harbor. They sent Thomas Gage to close the port of Boston and restrict town meetings. THey couldn't trade, and many people lost their jobs
Who were THE INTOLERABLE ACTS?