Vocabulary
Special Search warrants used by the British
Writs of Assistance
Who wrote Common Sense? What did the pamphlet call for?
Thomas Paine - Immediate Independence
Act/ Proclamation required the colonists to feed and shelter British troops
Quartering Act
Who created the famous picture of the Boston Massacre and what word did we use to describe it?
A form of?
Paul Revere
Propaganda
Pontiac was the leader of what tribe and where was the last battle of their rebellion?
Ottawa
Fort Detroit
Refuse to buy goods
Boycott
The Shot heard round the World is from what Battle?
Lexington
-List three items that needed a stamp on them
Land deeds, marriage licenses, playing cards, legal documents, Dice, newspapers
Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
George Washington
In April 1775 General Gage sent troops where to capture supplies?
Concord
Sam Adams organized about 60 members of what group to dump the tea into Boston Harbor?
Sons of Liberty
Give the a famous quote from the Battle of Bunker Hill
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
or shoot
As a result of Pontiac’s Rebellion what did the British do to the land in the west? What Mt. Range?
Cut off the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763
Who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming? Who were the British trying to capture?
William Dawes
John Hancock and Sam Adams
Name the peninsula that Bunker Hill is on.
Charlestown
Import tax on foreign goods
Duties
What tea company could sell their product directly to the colonists?
British East India Company
Duties on imported goods such as glass, lead and paint is what Act or Proclamation?
Townshend Act
What is Patrick Henry’s famous quote?
Give me Liberty or Give Me Death
What city did the Continental Congress meet at?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Naval measure used to cut off a country’s trade and supplies
Blockade
Identify the four parts of the Intolerable Acts
Closed Boston Harbor, Canceled Charter, New Quartering Act, British officials trials moved to England
What statement followed the repeal of the Stamp Act and what did it say?
Declaratory Act - stated that Parliament was still in control of the colonies
Who did the colonists send the Olive Branch Petition to and what group sent it and what was it?
King George III
Second Continental Congress
Request for peace
Explain the importance of the Ohio River Valley in causing the American Revolution.
Both the French and Indian War and Pontiac's rebellion were fought over the land. Both cause the British to tax or makes laws that caused unrest with the colonists.