Vocabulary
Trouble Over Taxes
Colonists Rebel
Colonists Rebel 2
This and That
100
This means to cancel.
What is repeal?
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
The amount of people who were killed during the Boston Massacre.
What is five?
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
The three groups who were fighting over the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Who were the British (or American) colonists, the French, and the American Indians?
200
The main goal of the First Continental Congress was...
What is have each colony raise a militia, or volunteer army to be prepared to fight the British?
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 event caused Britain to impose (put into place) the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
300
The land west of the Appalachian Mountains that was being fought over in the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
300
This law placed a tax on printed materials in the colonies, such as legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
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 quarter, or give food and shelter to, British troops. 2. The colony of Massachusetts was put under martial law, the military controlled it. 3. British navy ships blockaded Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the tea they destroyed.
400
The popular protest after the Stamp Act. Hint: What did the colonist chant because they were not asked to join Parliament?
What is "No taxation without representation!"?
400
The group that led protests against the new Stamp Act tax
What is Sons of Liberty?
500
Refusal to buy goods.
What is boycott?
500
Double Points****What two things did the Daughters of Liberty do to help boycott English goods?
What is weaved their own cloth and made liberty tea?
500
What do you call a colonist opposed to British rule?
Who is a Patriot?
500
Patrick Henry's famous line was...
What is "Give me liberty or give me death!"
500
Colonists who remained loyal to King George and the British government were known as this.
Who is a Loyalist?
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