American Revolution #1
He was the King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is KING GEORGE III.
1765 law taxed newspapers, legal papers, and playing cards
What is the Stamp Act?
What rallying cry that protested taxes without colonial seats in Parliament
“No taxation without representation.”
What are the 3 regions of the 13 English colonies?
New England, Middle, and Southern
Who was the first commander-in-chief of America?
George Washington
In 1770 this was a street clash in Boston left five colonists dead?
The Boston Massacre
This act passed a law that made colonists pay tax on anything printed on paper.
Stamp Act
Someone that wanted to be free from British rule.
Patriot
In 1773 this was protest saw tea dumped into Boston Harbor?
The Boston Tea Party
What punitive laws colonists called “Intolerable Acts” followed the Tea Party?
The Coercive Acts
1763 royal order limited westward settlement beyond the Appalachians?
The Proclamation of 1763
In 1767 this Act taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea?
The Townshend Acts
This act put a tax on tea that the colonists had to pay taxes on barrels of tea.
Tea Act
What are the 3 natural rights given to citizen at birth from God?
Life, Liberty, and Property
Which philosopher’s idea of natural-rights ideas heavily influenced colonial leaders?
John Locke
What 1764 Act was put on the colonists that tightened enforcement on molasses?
The Sugar Act
What war caused a financial burden on Britian, so they started taxing the British.
French and Indian War
This was someone in the colonies who supported staying loyal to the King of England.
What is a LOYALIST
What country was originally in control of the Ohio River Valley?
France
Who dressed as Native Americans and boarded ships and threw the tea into the Boston Harbor.
Sons of Liberty
Who was in charge of supplying soldiers was uniforms during the Boycott of England?
Daughters of Liberty
What was the group's name that was in charge of the spinning and weaving homespun cloth during the boycott, and they are part of the Daughters of Liberty?
Spinning Bees
What is it called when people refuse to buy goods from a particular group or country?
A boycott.
What was the meeting place of Sons of Liberty?
The Liberty Tree
What is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views?
Liberty
What was the Act called that allowed English soldiers to live inside colonist homes?
The Quartering Act
The French and Indian War was fought between the _______________ in ________________
The French and British in North America
What did the Daughters of Liberty call the replacement for the boycotted Tea?
Liberty Tea
What Boston symbol of resistance was an elm used for protests?
The Liberty Tree
The Intolerable Acts punished Massachusetts for the _______________.
Boston Tea Party
what was the name of the small fort Washington built, to use as a new base of operations.
Fort Necessity
Who was the African American sailor who had previously escaped slavery and was killed during the Boston Massacre?
Crispus Attucks
Who was the Boston lawyer who defended the soldiers to show Britain that the colonial courts were fair?
John Adams
What year was the Boston Tea Party?
1773
What was it called when the Sons of Liberty poured a sticky substance on a Loyalist to publicly shame them?
Tar and Feathering
Who was was the leader of the Sons of Liberty in Boston?
Samuel Adams