Taxes
This act placed a tax on tea.
The Tea Act.
This famous drawing was a cut up animal representing the 13 colonies.
"Join or Die", Benjamin Franklin's snake
Colonists fought in the Revolutionary War to________
gain freedom from Britain.
This war was fought between the British, colonists, French and Native Americans.
The French and Indian War
This act placed a tax on imported lead, glass, paper, paint and tea.
The Townshend Act
Colonists dressed as Native Americans to board British ships and dumped tea into the Boston harbor.
Boston Tea Party
During the Revolutionary War, the American colonists were called ___________ or ___________ .
Rebels, Patriots, or Sons of Liberty
Who fought with the British in the French and Indian War?
American colonists and Iroquois
Colonists threw snowballs at British guards and five colonists were killed and many others were wounded in this event.
Boston Massacre
Colonists who sided with the British and King George were called this.
Loyalists
The French and British fought over the _____________in the French and Indian War?
Ohio River Valley.
This act required colonists to pay taxes on sugar, coffee, molasses, indigo and whale fins.
Sugar Act
King George issued this law saying all land in the Ohio River Valley was for Native Americans.
Proclamation of 1763
Paul Revere's engraved picture and description of the Boston Massacre was an example of what?
Propaganda
This act required colonists to buy stamps or seals for most paper goods, playing cards, documents, etc.
The Stamp Act
This act that closed the Boston harbor after the Boston Tea Party.
The Intolerable Acts
The First Continental Congress sent this to King George, hoping to find a peaceful resolution before the war.
Olive Branch Petition
What was the reason for taxes after the French and Indian War?
Britain wanted them to help pay off the war debt.