British Law & Taxes
This 1765 law taxed newspapers, legal papers, and all kinds of printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group organized boycotts and protests against British taxes and sometimes used intimidation.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
Fighting in the Revolution began at these two towns on April 19, 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The British captured this major city in 1776 and used it as their base.
hat is New York City?
These colonists supported independence from Britain.
Who were the Patriots?
This set of taxes placed duties on imported glass, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This 1773 event involved colonists dumping 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This event in 1770 involved British soldiers killing five colonists during a chaotic confrontation.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This group fought on the colonists’ side in exchange for promises of freedom in some areas, especially in the South.
Who were enslaved African Americans?
hese colonists stayed loyal to Britain during the Revolution.
Who were the Loyalists (Tories)?
This act forced colonists to accept cheap British tea, which they viewed as a trick.
What is the Tea Act?
This slogan summarized colonists’ belief that Parliament couldn’t tax them without a voice.
What is “no taxation without representation”?
Britain tried this strategy before the war: sending troops, seizing weapons, and trying to control the colonies.
What is a “law-and-order” strategy?
This European military officer helped train the Continental Army during the winter at Valley Forge.
Who is Baron von Steuben?
These women helped by making homemade cloth and goods to replace boycotted British items.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This series of laws punished Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
These organized refusals to buy British goods became one of the colonists’ strongest weapons.
What are boycotts?
This winter camp showed colonial suffering but also improved the Continental Army’s training.
What is Valley Forge?
The British switched their focus to this region later in the war, hoping to gain Loyalist support.
What is the South?
Before the war, colonists mostly saw themselves as British subjects, but by the mid-1770s, this identity began forming.
What is an American identity?
This 1763 policy banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This 1774 meeting of delegates from 12 colonies demanded Britain repeal the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This 1777 battle convinced France to become an American ally.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The war effectively ended when the British surrendered here in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
Internal conflict between Patriots and Loyalists — especially in the South — meant part of the war was this type of conflict.
What is a civil war within the colonies?