Acts and Taxes
The first tax hike imposed on the colonists
What was the Sugar Act
This act closed Boston Harbor until the city repaid the East India Tea company for the tea that was dumped into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Boston Port Act?
The event where colonists disguised themselves and boarded ships and threw several hundred chests of tea into the harbor.
What was the Boston Tea Party.
This colony provided no delegate for the First COntinental Congress.
What is Georgia?
What is the statement “No Taxation Without Representation”?
This act prevented the colonies from printing their own cheap paper money.
What was the Currency Act?
This was the official name for the “Intolerable Acts”.
What were the Coercive Acts?
This man was a Boston revolutionary and a Son of Liberty
Who was Samuel Adams?
This event was a unified response from the colonies to the Intolerable Acts, and took place in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This act was passed in 1767 and levied taxes on virtually all imports entering the colonies from Great Britain.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This act forced colonists to supply, feed and house British soldiers
What was the Quartering Act?
This event caused the Intolerable acts
What is the Boston Tea Party
The colonists who participated in the Boston Tea Party were disguised as this Native American tribe.
Who are the Mohawk Indians?
This number of delegates attended the First Continental Congress.
What is 55?
British soldiers killed five protesters in this famous act.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This person came up with the idea to introduce taxes.
Who was George Grenville?
These were the three Intolerable Acts.
What are the Boston Port Act, the New Quartering Act, and The Massachusetts Government Act?
This group of educated colonists met under ‘liberty trees’
Who are The Sons of Liberty?
This document was drafted at the First Continental Congress.
What is the Declaration of American Rights?
This British King was in power during the Colonial Revolution.
Who was King George III?
Newspaper, Almanacs, pamphlets, bonds, licenses, deeds, diplomas and playing cards. These are just 5 things that were taxed by this act.
What is the Stamp Act?
This act cancelled city elections and indefinitely closed town meetings in Boston.
What is the Massachusetts Government Act?
This person was burned in an effigy by the Sons of Liberty
Who is Boston’s tax collector?
The Declaration of American Rights stated this.
What is the statement that says Parliament had no authority over internal colonial affairs?
Nine of the colonies sent delegates to New York to attend this Congress in October of 1765.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?