Vocab
Britain's Government was known as this:
What is Parliament?
This act placed a tariff on all goods being imported to the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This conflict resulted in France losing much of it's land in North America and England claiming a much larger portion as a result.
What is French and Indian War
The people of Europe called this conflict by a different name than the people of North America.
What is the 7 Years War?
A colonial person who could quickly prepare to defend their colony was known as:
What is a minuteman?
A refusal to buy goods or services is known as:
What is a boycott?
A tax placed on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act
This event quickly escalated to a point that resulted in the deaths of 5 people in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The primary reason the King of England decided to tax the colonies.
The king had debts due to the French and Indian/7 Years War.
Colonists who opposed the King of England protested against the King's laws was known as:
What is a Patriot?
A tax on an imported good is called a:
What is a Tariff?
These acts were a punishment for Boston as a result of the event known as the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What is The First Continental Congress?
People who sided with the King of England as the conflict between the king and the colonists continued to grow.
Who are Loyalists?
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
A local volunteer army in the colonies was called a:
What is a Militia?
This act required the people of Boston to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
An event where colonists disguised as Native Americans boarded ships to dump valuable tea overboard into Boston Harbor.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
A law made by Parliament was also known as:
What is an Act?
This battle is widely regarded as the start of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Lexington?
Another word meaning to cancel or get rid of:
What is repeal?
What is the Sugar Act?
This order by the King of England ruled that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains and instead required them to settle on the east side of those mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Another word for England.
What is Britain?
This person is well-known for saying "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!"
Who was Patrick Henry?