This act forced colonists to pay a tax on all paper products including newspapers and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act
100
The colonists biggest complaint about Great Britain.
What is Taxation without Representation
100
Name two British reactions to colonists disobedience.
What is blockade of harbor? What is the quartering act? What is writs of assistance? What is accusing Patriots of treason?
100
Another name for freedom
What is liberty?
100
A member of the Sons of Liberty who on April 18,1775 rode to Lexington and Concord to warn the colonists.
Who is Paul Revere?
200
This act placed a tax on all products containing sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act of 1764
200
A person who wants to break away from the crown.
What is a patriot?
200
Name 4 ways the Patriots protested.
What are Petitions? What are boycotts? What is Committees of Correspondence? What is Boston Massacre?
What is Boston Tea Party? What is the Continental Congress?
200
A meeting with representatives from 12 colonies discussing what they should do if the British sent their army to make the colonists obey.
What is the Continental Congress?
200
A tax on goods brought into a country.
What is a tariff?
300
This act forced all colonists living west of the Appalachian Mountains to move back to the colonies. It also set up an Indian Reserve for Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763
300
Name two events that happened in Boston that caused tension between the British Parliament and the colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party?
300
The branch of the British government in which members make laws for the British people.
What is Parliament?
300
Colonists who could be ready in a minute to defend Massachusetts.
What is the minutemen?
300
A request for action signed by many people.
What is a petition?
400
These acts, renamed by the colonists because of their harshness, forced colonists to quarter or house and feed British soldiers. The acts also placed a blockade on ships planning to leave or enter Boston harbor.
What are the Intolerable Acts
400
Name a reason that the colonists were angry with Britain after the French and Indian War.
What is they were taxed without their consent?
400
A friend, especially in a time of war.
What is an ally?
400
The general in the British army who became the governor of Massachusetts.
Wh0 is Thomas Gage?
400
A meeting of representatives who have the authority to make decisions.
What is a legislature?
500
This act placed a tax or tariff on imported goods such as lead, glass, paint, paper, and tea.