British Acts
This act taxed printed materials such as newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group, started by Samuel Adams, protested the Stamp Act.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
Event where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These groups spread information throughout the colonies after the Boston Massacre.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
This act required colonists to house British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
Refusing to buy British goods is called this.
What is a boycott?
Five colonists died during this event in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Delegates from nine colonies met at this congress to protest taxation.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This act placed taxes on imported goods after the repeal of the Stamp Act.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Information used to influence opinions and support a cause is called this.
What is propaganda?
The Sons of Liberty used this event as anti-British propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These laws punished Boston after the Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This act lowered the tax on molasses and increased enforcement against smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
Colonial protests and boycotts helped cause the repeal of this act.
What is the Stamp Act?
Put these in order: Tensions rise, fight begins, colonists die, propaganda spreads. Which happened first?
What is "Tensions grow between British soldiers and Boston colonists"?
The First Continental Congress met because of these punitive laws against Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This act declared that Parliament could tax and make laws for the colonies in all cases.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Daily Double! Name the group that organized the Boston Tea Party and protested British rule.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
Daily Double! Was Paul Revere's engraving an exact picture of what happened at the Boston Massacre?
No, it was propaganda and not an exact depiction.
Daily Double! Name the meeting that brought colonial leaders together in 1774 to coordinate a response to Britain.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Put these events in order from earliest to latest:
Proclamation of 1763 → Sugar Act → Stamp Act → Townshend Acts