Acts
Required colonists to provide food, drink and housing to British soldiers stationed in their towns or villages.
What is the Quartering Act?
The person who was thought to be the first to die in the Revolutionary War.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A fight between British soldiers and colonists in Boston. 5 colonists lost their lives.
What was The Boston Massacre?
The group of colonists who united together to protest the Stamp Act and the unfair taxes by the British.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The name of the group of British lawmakers?
What is Parliament?
This act taxed sugar, molasses and rum.
What is the Sugar Act?
The leader of England during the Revolutionary War.
Who was King George III?
The war that caused the British to have a lot of debt to pay back.
What is the French and Indian War?
To refuse to buy to use a product under protest.
What is boycott?
9. What did The Boston Massacre spark?
American Revolution
This act taxed anything on paper (newspapers, magazines, playing cards, important documents).
What is the Stamp Act?
Another name given to the Intolerable Acts
What is the Coercive Acts of 1774
The name of a person who strongly opposed British rule?
What is a Patriot?
The name of a colonist that was still loyal to Britain.
What is a Loyalist?
The French and Indian War was fought because of this?
What is a struggle between the French and British for control over land in the Ohio River Valley?
This act taxed tea, glass, lead, and paper the colonies imported.
What is The Townshend Act?
The leader of the Continental (American) Army and the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
Dozens of colonists (Sons of Liberty) dressed up as Native Americans and boarded ships in Boston Harbor illegally to dump tea into the harbor.
What was The Boston Tea Party?
Who would have said “No taxation, without representation”?
A Patriot
A country that has a lot of importance and influence because it can produce, buy, and sell a lot of products or services is referred to as ___________
What is an economic power?
Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party. It was a punishment to Massachusetts and a warning to other colonies.
What are The Intolerable Acts?
Law that stated colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Phrase that meant taxes were imposed on the colonists but the colonists had no say in the taxation.
What is "taxation without representation?"
Delegates (representatives) from each colony met in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts.
What was the First Continental Congress?
This Act created a monopoly so that tea could be sold cheaply, but only by one British tea company.
4. What is the Tea Act?