Taxes/Acts
This act taxed molasses, coffee beans, and sugar cane.
Sugar Act
The violent protest group who organized acts of violence against tax collectors; organized the Boston Tea Party.
Sons of Liberty
The war between the French, British, and Native Americans over the Ohio River Valley.
Taxes
This event caused 340 crates of British tea to be dumped in the Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
This act required colonists to pay a tax on tea, glass, paint, and lead.
Townshend Acts
This man acted as the lawyer for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. He defended them because he believed they deserved a fair trial.
John Adams
Proclamation of 1763
This event left 5 American colonists dead and 2 British soldiers in jail for manslaughter; started as a small argument that escalated to much more when a mystery man yelled "FIRE!"
The Boston Massacre
The name of the British law-making government.
Parliament
This act required colonists to provide food, clothing, and shelter to British soldiers.
Quartering Act
The colonists involved in the Boston Tea Party dressed up as these people. The disguises did not trick the British, though.
Mohawk Indians
Name the 7 continents of the world
**1 country from each**
Asia, Africa, Australia, Antartica, North America, South America, Europe
The Sons of Liberty organized the biggest boycott of British goods yet, by refusing to allow this tea company to unload their boats full of tea supply in Boston.
British East India Tea Company
Colonists were angry about taxes because they did not have a say in government. What phrase did they constantly say?
"No Taxation Without Representation"
This act angered the colonists and caused them to plan and carry out the Boston Tea Party.
Tea Act
This person was a former slave who was killed during the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
What four countries attempted to colonize in the New World?
Spain, France, Great Britain, Netherlands
Parliament responded to the Boston Tea party by issuing the Intolerable Acts. List one act/rule included in the Intolerable Acts.
-Closed Boston Harbor
-King picked the new governor
-All British soldiers accused of crimes would have a trial in England instead
-Quartering Act
This group would show their disgust with British taxes by boycotting British goods. They would often spin their own wool and host spinning bees; very peaceful
Daughters of Liberty
This act was "punishment" to the colonists of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
The captain involved in the Boston Massacre who was accused of starting the firing.
Captain Thomas Preston
Name 3 influential people from Black History Month and explain their importance.
Vary
First Continental Congress
The boycotts of British goods worked a lot of times...what were eventually repealed? (3)
Townshend Acts
Stamp Act
Sugar Act