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King of England during the 1770s.
Taxes on sugar used in the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
Patriots, dressed as Mohawk Native Americans, threw 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Colonists who supported war with Britain, and believed the colonists had the right to govern themselves.
Who were Patriots?
(Definition) Incoming money from taxes or other sources.
What is revenue?
From Virginia, this man was put in charge of the Continental Army in 1775.
Who is George Washington?
Taxes on paper goods used in the colonies.
What was the Stamp Act?
A kerfuffle with English troops and colonists which ended in gunfire and the death of Crispus Attucks.
What is rebellion?
(Definition) Militia members who could be ready to fight at a minute's notice.
Who were the Minutemen?
The man of color who died in the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
Taxes on glass, paint, and tea.
What were the Townsend Acts?
May 1775: some of the greatest leaders in the colonies met in Philadelphia, to plan for governing the colonies without British help. This group began printing new money, set up a post office, and created a Continental Army.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
To refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one's terms.
What is boycott?
Date the Declaration of Independence was signed.
When was July 4, 1776?
The man in charge of the Post Office after it was created by the Second Continental Congress.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Closed Boston Harbor, shut down Massachusetts colonial government, and included the Quartering Act.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
Battle in Massachusetts where Gen. Prescott famously told his soldiers "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." The battle ended in British victory.
To cancel an act or a law.
What is repeal?
The British title for the Intolerable Acts.
Author of the Pamphlet "Common Sense."
Allowed soldiers to live in colonists' houses without their permission.
Sept. 1774, delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss colonial rights, and set up a political body to challenge British control in America.
What was the First Continental Congress?
Colonists who did not think unfair taxes justified a rebellion.
Who were Loyalists?
Two battles in Massachusetts where the British faced off against Minutemen, while trying to take their weapons and ammunition stores. When the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired.
What were the battles of Lexington and Concord?