Vocabulary
Trouble Over Taxes
Colonists Rebel
Revolution Begins
This and That
100
Laws calling for a tax on imported goods
What is Townshend Acts
100
Why did Britain start imposing taxes on the colonists?
To raise money after the French and Indian War
100
What did the Committees of Correspondence do?
Share news among the colonies
100
Which Patriot warned of the British attack?
Who is Paul Revere?
100
Militia groups who could be ready to fight for their colony at only a minute's notice
Who were minutemen
200
Tax on imported goods
What is tariff
200
Name the first person to speak out against the Stamp Act
Who is Patrick Henry
200
What was the name of the ex-slave who was killed at the Boston Massacre?
Who is Crispus Attucks
200
Which battle took place first in the war?
What is Battle of Lexington
200
What is the name of the important battle that took place on Breed's Hill?
What is Battle of Bunker Hill
300
Britain's law making assembly
What is Parliament
300
What effect did British taxing on the colonies as a whole?
They started to unite.
300
What caused the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Boston Tea Party
300
Which battle began with "the shot heard round the world"?
What is Battle of Lexington
300
Who offered to lead the men in battle in relief of Boston?
Who is George Washington
400
Volunteer army
What is militia
400
Who organized the Sons of Liberty?
Who is Samuel Adams
400
Double Bonus**** Name the three parts of the Intolerable Acts.
1. Colonists had to feed and house British soldiers 2. Boston's port was closed. 3. Massachusetts was put under a British general.
400
Which small battle forced the British back to Boston?
What is Battle of Concord
400
The group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax
What is Sons of Liberty
500
New laws dictated by Britain to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What is Intolerable Acts
500
Double Points****What two things did the Daughters of Liberty do to help boycott English goods?
Weaved their own cloth and made liberty tea
500
What do you call a colonist opposed to British rule?
Who is a Patriot
500
Who led the colonists in the battle of Bunker Hill?
Who is William Prescott
500
Law that placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies
What is Stamp Act
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