Taxes & Policies
This tax lowered taxes on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies, but increased punishments for smuggling.
What is the Sugar Act?
This secret group of patriots organized protests and sometimes violent actions against British taxes.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This pamphlet encouraged colonists to support independence and was written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
The first military engagement of the Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This long-standing British policy of ignoring strict enforcement of laws allowed the colonies to govern themselves informally.
What is salutary neglect?
Colonists used this form of protest—refusing to buy British goods—to pressure Parliament to repeal taxes.
What is a boycott?
These first battles of the American Revolution are known as the “shot heard ’round the world.”
This 1777 battle is considered the turning point of the war because it convinced France to join the American side.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1765 law required colonists to buy special paper with an official seal for legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers firing into a crowd, killing five colonists, and sparking outrage.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This meeting of colonial delegates responded to the Intolerable Acts by organizing boycotts and preparing militias.
What was the First Continental Congress?
Washington and the French army trapped Cornwallis in this Virginia battle, forcing his surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This act placed taxes on all imported goods like glass, lead, paint, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
This 1773 law gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea, leading to a very famous protest in Boston.
What is the Tea Act?
This event that destroyed millions of dollars of property convinced many colonists that peaceful protest with Britain was no longer possible.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This 1783 document officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This British claim argued that Parliament represented all British subjects, even those in the colonies who couldn’t vote.
What is virtual representation?
Passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, these acts closed Boston Harbor and limited colonial self-government.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
This man, once a hero at Saratoga, later committed treason by plotting to surrender West Point to the British.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
Who led the British forces in the Battle of Yorktown.
Who is Cornwallis?