Acts and Taxes
This act required colonists to pay a tax on all paper goods, including newspapers.
What is the Stamp Act?
In this 1773 event, colonists protested British taxes by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He famously rode to warn colonists that the British were coming.
Who is Paul Revere?
This 1775 battle marked the first military engagements of the Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This document, America’s first constitution, was adopted during the Revolutionary War to govern the new nation.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This series of laws closed Boston’s port and reduced self-governance in Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This 1770 confrontation resulted in British soldiers killing five colonists in Boston.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This King of Britain was the main symbol of colonial grievances.
Who is King George III?
This battle, fought on a hill overlooking Boston, proved the colonists could stand up to British forces.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
This document was created to petition King George III to stop treating the colonists so unfairly.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This act required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This act was a popular form of protest where colonists refused to buy British goods to hurt Britain economically.
What is a boycott?
He was appointed by the Second Continental Congress as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This 1777 battle in New York was a turning point that helped gain French support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This term refers to American colonists who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Who are the Loyalists?
This was the first tax that directly targeted goods like glass, paint, and tea.
What is the Townshend Act?
The slogan that expressed colonists' anger over taxation without parliamentary representation.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
This founding father helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
After this battle in Virginia, General Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, formally declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These harsh laws, passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, were meant to punish Massachusetts and assert British control.
What are the Coercive Acts?
These groups, formed by American colonists, shared information and coordinated responses to British policies.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
This writer’s pamphlet, titled Common Sense, argued passionately for American independence from Britain and influenced public opinion in 1776.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This battle in 1776 was a major British victory, forcing Washington’s troops to retreat from New York City.
What is the Battle of Long Island?
The introduction to the Declaration of Independence, which outlines the philosophical reasons for independence, is known as this.
What is the Preamble?