Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party /Tea Act
Coercive Acts
100
the year the Stamp Act was passed
What is 1765
100
the items the TA taxed
What is glass, paper, paint, tea
100
3 effects of having the British soldiers in the colonists towns
What is 1.colonists made fun of the soldiers' uniforms 2.soldiers got mad and destroyed colonial property 3.fights broke out between soldiers and colonists
100
Britain's East India Company had a monopoly on tea and were the only ones to sell tea to the colonies
What is The Tea Act
100
this is what coercive means
What is forced
200
these items were taxed by the Stamp Act
What are paper items such as newspapers, legal documents and playing cards
200
These two events happened in 1770
What is 1. TA repealed 2. 9,000 British Soldiers sent to Boston because of protesting
200
name of Paul Revere's depiction of the Boston Massacre
What is The Bloody Massacre
200
Colonists' choices and colonists' responses to the Tea Act
What is choices 1. pay the tax 2. don't drink the tea responses 1.boycott tea 2. make tea from sassafras trees
200
this is the person that had control over the Boston colony
Who is General Thomas Gage
300
this had to be on the paper item to prove your paid the tax
What is a special stamp
300
two results of the TA
What is 1. new group of tax collectors 2.Parliament believed they had the right to make laws for the colonists
300
This is where the Boston Massacre took place
What is near the Massachusetts State House
300
this happened in November 1773
What is The ships with tea arrived in Boston in November 1773 and against many colonists' wishes Massachusetts government let the ships dock
300
this is what the colonists called the coercive act
What is intolerable (unacceptable)
400
The colonists said this is the reason they cannot be taxed
What is no taxation without representation
400
the TA did not last long because...
What is 1. tax officers did not collect a lot of money 2. sales of British goods went down
400
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What is how many colonists were killed
400
Describe events of the Boston Tea Party
1.What is 150 members of Sons of Liberty dressed as members of the Mohawk Tribe and marched down to Boston Harbor 2. hundreds of people were gathered at the harbor to watch 3. The Sons of Liberty arrived and boarded the ships (that brought thousands of pounds of tea) 4. the SOL broke open more than 300 chests of tea and threw it all overboard
400
a result of these laws
What is united the colonists against Britain
500
This was formed in October 1765 and people spoke out against the Stamp Act
What is the Stamp Act Congress
500
3 ways to boycott TA
What is 1. colonists would not paint their houses 2. Merchants would not import taxed goods 3. DOL asked people to stop drinking tea
500
describe the events of the Boston Massacre
What is 1.a large crowd of angry colonists gathered near several British soldiers 2.colonists shouted and threw rocks and snowballs at the soldiers 3. when the crowd moved forward they knocked down some of the soldiers 4. soldiers opened fire 5. three colonists were killed on the spot and two others died later 6. among the dead an African American sailor named Crispus Attucks - it was thought he was the first person killed in the fight for the colonies' freedom
500
results of the Boston Tea Party
What is 1. British leaders are angered 2. In March 1774 Parliament passed a new set of laws (Coercive Acts) to punish the Massachusetts colonists
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