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British Acts
100
This co-son of liberty protested Britain and stirred up issues with their corrupt ways.
Who is Samuel Adams?
100
These men protested the stamp and sugar acts and intimidated any willing to support British acts.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
100
This protest of the Tea Act led to the flood of Boston Harbor with tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
This is the act of forcibly enlisting others.
What is Impressment?
100
These acts taxed sugar, banned paper currency, and taxed paper documents, respectively.
What are the sugar, currency, and stamp acts.
200
This virginian Aristocrat defied British authority and gave a dramatic speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses. He created the Virginia Resolves.
Who is Patrick Henry?
200
This female counterpart to a male organization resisted Britain's acts.
Who are the Daughters of Liberty?
200
This overexaggerated street clash led to the mere death of 5 people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
This set of resolutions declared that Americans have the same rights as English, including the right to only be taxed by their own representatives.
What are the Virginia Resolves?
200
This tax benefitted the East India Trading company, and taxed and made merchants fear a monopoly
What is the Tea Act?
300
This British prime minister led to the passing of acts named after himself.
Who is Charles Townshend?
300
These people are white immigrants of French descent.
Who are Creoles?
300
This colonial assembly was to try and counteract the act with a shared name.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
300
This plan, created by Benjamin Franklin, was to unite the 13 colonies but was not approved.
What is the Albany Plan?
300
Also known as the Quartering act, this act required Americans to house and shelter British soldiers.
What is the Mutiny Act?
400
This British prime minister after Townshend had to deal with the consequences of the Townshend Acts.
Who is Lord North?
400
These five indian nations (Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida) had a major influence in the Northeast.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
400
This British rule forbade settlers from moving west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
400
A group inaugurated by Adams in Massachusetts to perform political functions.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
400
These acts, also known as the intolerable acts, basically screwed over boston because they didn't pay for the damaged property from the Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
500
This British Prime minister believed that the colonists should listen more to Britain, and imposed new systems of control.
Who is George Grenville?
500
These new taxes on various goods (paper, lead, paint, tea, etc.) imported to the colonies from England.
What are the Townshend Duties?
500
This act was passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, and expanded the borders of Quebec from colonial land. In doing so, they tried to take away the colonies local self-rights.
What is the Quebec Act?
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