Tax
Placed a tax on tea.
What is the tea act?
Forced colonists to house and supply British soldiers in their town.
What is the Quartering Act?
A slogan developed by American Colonists used to justify not paying British taxes.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation".
Conflict between the British & French in North America also known as the seven years war.
What is the French & Indian War?
Placed a tax on sugar.
What is the sugar act?
Created a border that the colonists were not allowed to pass to avoid conflicts with Native Americans such as Pontiac of the Ottawa Nation.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
A best selling pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that convinced Americans to break free from British rule.
What is "Common Sense"?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What is the Stamp Act?
These allowed for search and seizure of American goods without a warrant or probable cause.
What are writs of assistance?
This document let the British Empire that the American Colonists were now their own country known as the United States of America.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Miscommunication that led to the death of Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Tax on led, paper, tea, paint & glass.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Originally known as the Coercive Acts but nicknamed based on their unpopularity.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
An unofficial British policy that allowed the American Colonists more freedom than other parts of the British Empire.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This document symbolized peace and was sent to the British King by the American Colonists to avoid war.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?