Key Terms
British Acts
British Taxes
Get Together
Miscellaneous
100
An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency
What is a militia?
100
A law forbidding colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. Many colonist ignored the law.
What is Proclamation of 1763?
100
Reduced the taxes on Tea and allowed the company o sell directly to the colonist.
What is the Tea Act
100
Sons of Liberty meet at Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
First battles of the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
a colonial volunteer militia who were prepared to fight at a minutes's notice
Who are the minutemen?
200
A law stating colonist must provide housing, candles, bedding, and beverages to soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
200
Placed a tax on legal documents, wills, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
riots on King Street, 5 dead colonist, growing resentment of the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
200
The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war and ended French power in ________ ____________.
North America
300
formal written request to someone in authority, signed by a group of people
What is petition?
300
Closed the port of Boston after the Boston Tea Party?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
Tax on glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
After the Intolerable Acts. This group of colonist agreed to boycott British goods and urged colonies to train their own militias.
What is the First Continental Congress?
300
A organizer of the Sons of Liberty?
Who is Samuel Adams?
400
A bent or prejudice to a particular side
What is bias?
400
a law that only allowed one town meeting a year.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
The most successful way the colonist protested British taxes.
What is boycott?
400
9 colonies met together and agreed to send a petition to King George and Parliament asking for the repeal of the Stamp Act.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
400
The war that led to increased British involvement (and higher taxes) in the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
Any organized group or movement to spread particular doctrines (ideas)
What is propaganda?
500
4 laws that were a response to the Boston Tea Party. Continued to escalate tension between the Colonies and Britain.
What are the Intolerable Acts
500
The colonist motto after 1765 and the passage of the Stamp Act.
What is "no taxation without representation!"?
500
a plan to create one central government to make laws, raise taxes, and set up colonial defense.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
500
A legal document that allowed British customs officials to inspect a ship's cargo without giving a reason.
What are writs of assistance?
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