English legislature that influenced colonial government
What is Parliament?
100
This act was replaced by the Townshend Act
What is the Stamp Act?
100
The document written by Joseph Warren that argued that the liberties guaranteed by the British constitution and the laws of nature applied to the Britons in Britain and in the colonies equally
What are the Suffolk Resolves?
100
Stripped Massachusetts of self governing and historic rights
What are the Intolerable Acts?
100
In the Boston Tea Party, colonists disguised themselves as this group of people as they destroyed the tea on the ships
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
200
These people could vote in English elections
Who are wealthy males?
200
This is why the British enforced the Sugar Act?
What is to raise colonial money for the Crown?
200
For 10 years this was the main weapon employed by the colonists in their unsuccessful attempt to win their demands from the mother country by peaceful means
What are nonimportation agreements?
200
Feared the British would withdraw troops from protecting their frontier and weren't represented at the First Continental Congress
What is Georgia?
200
Type of protest Colonists used to boycott
What is economic protest?
300
One of the first documents that reduced a monarch's power in England
What is the Magna Carta?
300
This act didn't let colonists make their own currency
What is the Currency Act?
300
American colonies' first institution for maintaining communication with one another
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
300
John Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry.
Who were the notable delegates at the First Continental Congress?
300
This was the event in which most of the democracy in the colonies took place
What is the town meeting?
400
The colonists felt that they were entitled to these freedoms allowed to British citizens
What are the bill of rights?
400
The slogan colonists said about taxes
What is "No taxation without representation?"
400
The English man who was appointed Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts, and was harassed by colonists on August 14, 1765.
Who is Andrew Oliver?
400
Encouraged Massachusetts to protest the Intolerable Acts by stockpiling military supplies, operating an independent government, and boycotting British goods
What were the Suffolk Resolves?
400
Proposed a plan of Union that offered a form of peaceful reconciliation
Who is Joseph Galloway?
500
This British policy aided the colonists ability to govern themselves
What is salutary neglect?
500
The most common way the colonists reacted to the taxes
What is protest?
500
Governor of Massachusetts that refused to send tea ships back to the East India Company
Who is Thomas Hutchinson?
500
Outlined reasons for rebellion, which included presence of royal governors in the colonies
What was the Declaration of Rights?
500
Captain of the British troops in Boston during the Boston Massacre