Acts
This act lowered the price of tea but angered many colonists as merchants often lost their job because of it.
What is the Tea Act
This group is the ruling body of Britain.
What is Parliament?
This event was the destruction of tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Fee Charged by a government on a product, income, or activity.
What are Taxes
Citizens agree to obey a set of rules, and the government agrees to protect citizens' rights (Life, Liberty, and Property).
What is Social Contract?
This was the very first tax imposed on the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
This group was created to organize protests of British policies and the boycotting of British goods.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
First battle of the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
To refuse to buy certain goods.
What is boycott?
This was James Otis' quote that was used to show the colonists' outrage over British taxes.
What is "No taxation without representation!"
This act placed a tax on paper, playing cards and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group wanted to remain a part of Great Britain.
What are Loyalist?
This event resulted in the deaths of five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The belief that human beings were born with fundamental basic rights which include the right to life, liberty, property, and the freedom to find happiness
What is Natural Rights?
Name given to a group that started making home goods. Hint: Women
Who are the Daughters of Liberty
Taxes on a lot of common goods people used everyday. Eventually led to the Boston Massacre
What is the Townshend Acts
These were people who opposed England's policies and wanted to break away from Great Britain.
What are patriots?
This war resulted in the attainment of more land but costed Great Britain a great deal of debt
What is the French and Indian War
Name given to colonial militiamen and soldiers.
What are minutemen?
"Give me liberty or give me death"
Who is Patrick Henry?
This act was the result of the Boston Tea Party which enforced housing of soldiers.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Told colonists to start to take up arms for a possible war coming
What is the First Continental Congress?
This was a type of protest where people were publicly humiliated
What is tar and feathering?
Importing goods illegally to avoid paying the taxes on those goods
What is smuggling?
This law did not allow the colonists to travel west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763