acts and taxes
What was the first direct tax on the colonies, requiring printed materials to have a special stamp?
Stamp Act
What was the colonial response to the Stamp Act that included refusing to buy British goods?
Boycott
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
George III
| This 1770 event involved British soldiers killing five colonists during a protest.
Boston Massacre
This petition sent to King George III in 1775 was a final attempt at peace.
Olive Branch Petition
This act placed a tax on tea, glass, paper, and paint imported into the colonies.
Townshend Acts
| What was the event where colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor?
Boston Tea Party
He defended the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.
John Adams
The first battles of the Revolutionary War occurred in these two towns.
Lexington and Concord
This pamphlet by Thomas Paine helped convince colonists to support independence.
Common Sense
This act allowed British troops to be housed in colonial homes.
Quartering Act
Which meeting of colonial delegates in 1774 responded to the Intolerable Acts?
First Continental Congress
He famously rode to warn that "the British are coming."
Paul Revere
Though technically a British victory, this 1775 battle showed the colonists could fight back.
Battle of Bunker Hill
Liberty Tree
This act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in America.
Tea Act
These groups helped organize resistance and spread information among the colonies.
Comittees of Correspondence
He wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, he is on the nickel and the two dollar bill.
Thomas Jefferson
This was the name of the colonial army formed in 1775.
Continental Army
This poem documents Paul Reveres historic warning to the Colonists
Paul Reveres ride
Name the series of laws passed to punish Boston after the Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
What secret group led protests and sometimes used violence against tax collectors?
Sons of Liberty
This person, was the first president and leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
This person was the first person to be killed at the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
This is the term for a document written during a historical period instead of about a historical period.
Primary document/Primary Source