Vocabulary
What is a militia?
Group of citizen soldiers
What is the sugar act?
Taxed sugar to crack down on trade between the colonies and other foreign nations.
The battle that was known as “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World"
Battle of Lexington/Concord
What were the Names of the boycotting groups
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
The British realized this after the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The Americans were not going to be easy to beat
What does 'repeal' mean?
To Cancel
What was the Stamp Act?
A tax on all paper goods including documentation, newspapers, playing cards, license, etc.
The event where the Sons of Liberty dumped tea into the Boston Harbor?
Boston Tea Party
What are loyalists?
Loyalists: British supporters who wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain
The day the Declaration of Independence was signed, or approved
July 4, 1776
What does 'petition' mean?
A formal request
What were the Townshend Acts?
A tax on all imported goods including Glass, paint, lead, tea.
The British realized this after the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The Americans were not going to be easy to beat
The author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What are some ways that the colonists prepared for battle against Britain?
Stockpiled weapons
Created a militia and trained citizens
What does 'boycott' mean?
Refuse to buy
Why did the British need to force taxes on the colonies?
To pay off war debts from the French and Indian War
What was the Boston Massacre?
British soldiers were stationed outside the customhouse and were being pelted with rocks, snowballs, and sticks. Colonists kept yelling at the soldiers until one of the soldiers fired.
What are patriots?
Supporters of complete independence
Colonists were told this command at the Battle of Bunker Hill?
not to fire until they “see the whites of their eyes”
What does 'minutemen' mean?
Militia that stated they could be ready to fight at a minutes notice
What were Intolerable Acts?
To punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party. Shut down Boston Harbor and forced colonists to house British soldiers
The two riders that tried to warn people of British movements.
Paul Revere and William Dawes
The author of Common Sense
Thomas Paine
What was the goal of the First Continental Congress?
To set up a government to govern themselves