VOCABULARY
Colonists who remained loyal to King George and the British Government.
loyalists
Named by Congress as the General of the Continental Army.
George Washington
Why was Britain in debt?
From the French and Indian War
March 5, 1770, 5 people were killed in Boston protesting the British Occupation. This event was known as...
The Boston Massacre
April 19, 1775, The Shot Heard Round the World was the beginning of what battle?
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
Britain’s law making assembly.
Parliament
This Bostonian defended the British soldiers responsible for the death of 5 people in the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
In 1765 Parliament parliament passed this tax, that put a tax on printed materials.
Stampt Act
This "Express Rider" made the trip from Boston to New York in a week. He was a silversmith that made his way through Medford to warn colonists that the British were coming!
Paul Revere
The name of the Militia in Lexington.
Minutemen
Groups of women that made their own tea and weaved clothing to help boycott British goods.
Daughters of Liberty
King of England
King George III
In October of 1765 the Stamp Act was canceled. Give a vocabulary word that means to cancel.
Repeal
The Boston Tea Party was in response to the increased tax on tea. What was the name of the act, that put a tax on tea?
the Tea Act
Who won the battle of Bunker Hill?
The British
Laws passed by Parliament that put a tax on imported goods like wool and tea.
Townshend Acts
General of the British army that occupied Massachusetts and the city of Boston during the Intolerable Acts.
General Gage
Sam Adams led an organization to protest British Taxes. This group was known as what?
The Sons of Liberty
Another name for a volunteer army.
Militias
What was the name of the location where the Battle of Bunker Hill took place?
Breed's Hill
A committee of members who represented each colony met in Philadelphia to discuss Colonial goals and objectives.
First Continental Congress
The Patriot leader who led 1,200 men up the hills of Charlestown in the Battle of Bunker hill.
William Prescott
in 1767 Parliament passed the Townshend Act, which put a tax on imported goods, also known as a...
tariff
Closing Boston Harbor, and sending additional soldiers, were a few of the punishments known as the...
Intolerable Acts
Finish the quote..."Don't fire until you see..."
the whites of their eyes.